To the editor: I’m completely satisfied to see the L.A. Instances editorial board persevering with to gentle a hearth underneath town to construct the Venice Dell reasonably priced housing undertaking (“Cease discovering methods to kill the Venice Dell homeless housing undertaking and get it constructed as an alternative,” March 23). As a Venice home-owner positioned a several-minute stroll from the location 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 annoyed to see Metropolis Councilwoman Traci Park and Metropolis Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto maneuver to successfully try to kill the undertaking.
Most inexplicable is the failure of Mayor Karen Bass, who ran on a platform of ending homelessness, to push ahead a housing improvement that can present 60 items of everlasting supportive housing for folks exiting homelessness, plus 60 reasonably priced items 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, protected group during which to reside. Park was an incredible champion of the residents of Venice together with her opposition to this and different dangerous initiatives. This undertaking would cement a harmful inhabitants of homeless folks into our group. This was proven to be an instance with the non permanent homeless housing on the transit lot on Fundamental Road.
Your opinion says, “The Venice Dell undertaking is just not a rogue undertaking on a chunk of land haphazardly turned over to the builders by town’s Improvement Division and Metropolis Council.” However that’s precisely what it’s. The neighborhood council and the folks of Venice largely have rejected this undertaking. I assume 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 wish 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 undertaking.
Sheila Goldberg, Venice
