To the editor: I’m blissful to see the L.A. Instances editorial board persevering with to gentle a hearth underneath the town to construct the Venice Dell inexpensive housing mission (“Stop finding ways to kill the Venice Dell homeless housing project and get it built instead,” March 23). As a Venice house owner situated a several-minute stroll from the positioning and a UCLA city planning professor, I’ve been excited to see the housing get all the required approvals and beat again NIMBY lawsuits. And I’ve been extremely pissed off to see Metropolis Councilwoman Traci Park and Metropolis Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto maneuver to successfully attempt to kill the mission.
Most inexplicable is the failure of Mayor Karen Bass, who ran on a platform of ending homelessness, to push ahead a housing improvement that may present 60 models of everlasting supportive housing for individuals exiting homelessness, plus 60 inexpensive models for low-income households and artists who in any other case could be in danger for displacement and homelessness. Because the headline of your editorial says, “Get it constructed!”
Chris Tilly, Venice
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To the editor: Yeah, former Councilman Mike Bonin was the “champion” of the homeless on the expense of the taxpaying public, who could possibly be damned for wanting a clear, secure group wherein to reside. Park was a terrific champion of the residents of Venice together with her opposition to this and different dangerous tasks. This mission would cement a harmful inhabitants of homeless individuals into our group. This was proven to be an instance with the momentary homeless housing on the transit lot on Foremost Avenue.
Your opinion says, “The Venice Dell mission is just not a rogue mission on a bit of land haphazardly turned over to the builders by the town’s Growth Division and Metropolis Council.” However that’s precisely what it’s. The neighborhood council and the individuals of Venice largely have rejected this mission. I suppose our opinions simply don’t matter.
Mindy Taylor-Ross, Venice
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To the editor: Thanks for exposing the hypocrisy of our elected officers who declare to need to remedy the homeless disaster in Venice. Park is catering to the NIMBYs; she refuses to honor the Metropolis Council and the Coastal Fee, which have authorized this worthwhile mission.
Sheila Goldberg, Venice
