Last month in downtown Los Angeles, the El Pueblo emergency homeless shelter opened on a city-owned parking lot near Union Station. Composed of three trailers arranged around a central outdoor deck, El Pueblo is the first of 15 planned “pop-up” shelters to open (one in each city council district), funded through Mayor Eric Garcetti’s “A Bridge Home” program.
Launched in April, the initiative will implement recommendations outlined in a December 2017 report by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute (ULI) to fast-track the construction of “bridge” housing, which provides immediate provisions for homeless individuals until more permanent options become available. According to the mayor’s office, over 25,000 people are now living on the streets of Los Angeles.
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