Housing and Homelessness

Please Note Public Comment Will Be Taken In­Person Only. JOURNAL – HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS COMMITTEE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2024 ­ 3:00 PM JOHN FERRARO COUNCIL CHAMBER ROOM 340, CITY HALL 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 MEMBERS: COUNCILMEMBER NITHYA RAMAN, CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER BOB BLUMENFIELD COUNCILMEMBER MARQUEECE HARRIS­DAWSON COUNCILMEMBER MONICA RODRIGUEZ COUNCILMEMBER JOHN S. LEE (Luigi Verano – Legislative Assistant – (213) 978­1082 or Clerk.HousingandHomelessness@lacity.org) Submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com The audio for Committee meetings is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.gov/calendar. The live audio can also be accessed at: (213) 621­CITY (Metro), (818) 904­9450 (Valley), (310) 471­CITY (Westside) and (310) 547­CITY (San Pedro Area). If the live audio is unavailable via one of these channels, members of the public are encouraged to use one of the other channels. The Committee will take public comment from members of the public in­person only; there will be no public comment by teleconference. Additional information regarding Committee procedures provided at the end of this agenda. MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 20­0841­S40 PURSUANT TO DECEMBER 21, 2023 COUNCIL ACTION Verbal reports from the Mayor, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Housing Authority of City of Los Angeles, and other needed Departments on the demobilization plan that ensures all residents continue on their housing solution path. Community Impact Statement: None submitted NO ACTION TAKEN (1) 20­0841­S40 PURSUANT TO DECEMBER 21, 2023 COUNCIL ACTION Verbal reports from the Mayor, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Housing Authority of City of Los Angeles, and other needed Departments on the demobilization plan that ensures all residents continue on their housing solution path. Community Impact Statement: None submitted NO ACTION TAKEN (2) 23­1397 Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles report relative to a request for a waiver of Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) to provide services to public housing residents, and amendment of a waiver of PILOT for calendar years 2024­26. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles report dated December 5, 2023 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (3) 22­1545­S11 CONTINUED FROM NOVEMBER 29, 2023 AND DECEMBER 6, 2023 City Administrative Officer (CAO) report relative to the Homelessness Emergency Account – General City Purposes Fund Ninth Status Report. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED and FILED City Administrative Officer report dated November 22, 2023 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (4) 23­0652­S2 CONTINUED FROM OCTOBER 18, 2023, NOVEMBER 1, 2023, AND NOVEMBER 29, 2023 CAO reports relative to the Homelessness Emergency Declaration 2023­ 24 First Quarterly and Supplemental Reports. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED and FILED City Administrative Officer reports dated October 13, 2023 and October 27, 2023 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (5) 15­0087­S9 CAO and Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) reports relative to grant awards from the Strategic Growth Council 2023 Round 7 Affordable  Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED and FILED City Administrative Officer reports dated October 13, 2023 and October 27, 2023 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (5) 15­0087­S9 CAO and Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) reports relative to grant awards from the Strategic Growth Council 2023 Round 7 Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED City Administrative Officer report dated December 22, 2023 and NOTED and FILED Los Angeles Housing Department report dated October 19, 2023 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (6) 21­0112­S1 LAHD report relative to technical corrections related to State of California Department of Housing and Community Development Homekey Program Round 2. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED revised Los Angeles Housing Department report dated January 10, 2024 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (7) 23­0206 LAHD report relative to a status update on the Fast Track Loan Program. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Los Angeles Housing Department report dated January 5, 2023 AS AMENDED – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (8) 17­0090­S15 Proposition HHH Administrative Oversight Committee report relative to amendment to the Proposition HHH Fiscal Year 2020­21 Project Expenditure Plan.  Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Los Angeles Housing Department report dated January 5, 2023 AS AMENDED – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (8) 17­0090­S15 Proposition HHH Administrative Oversight Committee report relative to amendment to the Proposition HHH Fiscal Year 2020­21 Project Expenditure Plan. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Proposition HHH Administrative Oversight Committe report dated January 4, 2024 – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (9) 23­1443 Motion (Rodriguez ­ Blumenfield) relative to establishing a Citywide process to apply for Encampment Resolution Funding from the State of California. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Rodriguez ­ Blumenfield) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (10) 23­1444 Motion (Hernandez – Yaroslavsky) relative to jail in­reach programs in connection with people experiencing homelessness and related matters. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Hernandez – Yaroslavsky) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (11) 23­1325 CD 7 Motion (Rodriguez – Hernandez) relative to the Peer to Peer Homeless Youth Ambassadors Program to connect low­income college students who are, or at risk of, homelessness to supportive services, specialized training, and paid work experience in Council District 7. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Rodriguez – Hernandez) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (12) 23­1194 Motion (Rodriguez ­ de Leon) relative to enumerating data of the Inside Safe initiative.  are, or at risk of, homelessness to supportive services, specialized training, and paid work experience in Council District 7. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Rodriguez – Hernandez) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (12) 23­1194 Motion (Rodriguez ­ de Leon) relative to enumerating data of the Inside Safe initiative. Community Impact Statement: Yes For: Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council APPROVED Motion (Rodriguez – de Leon) AS AMENDED – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (13) 09­2665­S7 CD 9 Motion (Price ­ Hutt) relative to additional funding and contract amendments for the environmental clean­up of Slauson Wall Site located at 5867 South Los Angeles Street. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Price ­ Hutt) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (14) 23­1261 CD 10 Motion (Hutt ­ Hernandez) relative to releasing a Request for Proposals to develop affordable housing at the City­owned property located at 682 S. Vermont Avenue in Koreatown. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Motion (Hutt ­ Hernandez) – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (15) DISCUSSION ITEM Verbal report from the LAHD regarding the United to House LA (ULA) Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP), and LAHD's new publicly available housing data dashboards. NO ACTION TAKEN (16) 22­1545­S12 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Homelessness Emergency Account (HEA) – General City Purposes Fund Tenth Status Report. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED AND FILED City Administrative Officer report dated January 12, 2024, – (3)  NO ACTION TAKEN (16) 22­1545­S12 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Homelessness Emergency Account (HEA) – General City Purposes Fund Tenth Status Report. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED AND FILED City Administrative Officer report dated January 12, 2024, – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (17) 12­1690­S18 Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) report relative to the Inclement Weather Shelter Program. Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED AND FILED Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority report dated January 12, 2024, – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee (18) 23­0652­S3 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Homelessness Emergency Declaration 2023­24 Second Quarterly Report. Community Impact Statement: None submitted NOTED AND FILED City Administrative Officer report dated January 12, 2024, – (3) Yes; (2) Absent: Harris­Dawson; Lee SUPPORTING MATERIALS Materials relating to items on the agenda are available on the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System found at https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect by entering the Council File number (e.g., 00­0000) associated with the agenda item. PUBLIC INPUT AT CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS Members of the public who wish to speak on one or multiple items shall have an opportunity to speak up to one minute per item up to a total of two minutes for two or more agenda items. At regular meetings, members of the public shall also have an opportunity to speak up to one minute for general public comment on any matter within the subject­matter jurisdiction of the Committee. The Committee is not required to take general public comment at special meetings. The Committee may limit the total amount of time for public comment on any specific agenda item, on all agenda­items collectively, and/or on general public comment, based on the anticipated time required to hear from public speakers on any given or all agenda items, on the availability of Committee members and the need to maintain quorum, and on any other relevant factor. The Committee shall not discuss or take action relative to any general public comment except as explicitly permitted under the Brown Act. COMMITTEE INFORMATION, ASSIGNMENTS, AND STRUCTURE https://clerk.lacity.gov/clerk­services/cps/council­committee­meetings/info­assignments­structure SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION Requests for reasonable modification or accommodation from individuals with disabilities, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, can be made by contacting the City Clerk's Office at (213) 978­1133. For Telecommunications Relay Service for the hearing impaired, please see the information below. NOTICE TO PAID REPRESENTATIVES and the need to maintain quorum, and on any other relevant factor. The Committee shall not discuss or take action relative to any general public comment except as explicitly permitted under the Brown Act. COMMITTEE INFORMATION, ASSIGNMENTS, AND STRUCTURE https://clerk.lacity.gov/clerk­services/cps/council­committee­meetings/info­assignments­structure SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION Requests for reasonable modification or accommodation from individuals with disabilities, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, can be made by contacting the City Clerk's Office at (213) 978­1133. For Telecommunications Relay Service for the hearing impaired, please see the information below. NOTICE TO PAID REPRESENTATIVES If a member of the public is compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require them to register as a lobbyist and report this activity. More information can be found at Los Angeles Municipal Code 48.01 et seq. or at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. Further assistance can be found by contacting the Ethics Commission at (213) 978­1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org. EXHAUSTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES A member of the public seeking to challenge a City action in court may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk prior to the public hearing in time reasonably to be considered by the Committee members. Any written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk before the City Council's final action on a matter will become a part of the administrative record. TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY SERVICE (TRS) COMMUNICATIONS Individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, and individuals with a speech disability, may be able to avail themselves of both for peer­to­peer and third­party telecommunications relay service (TRS) communications. Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers ­ generally telephone companies ­ are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available? There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY­Based TRS; Speech­to­Speech Relay Service; Shared Non­English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications­relay­service­trs. Don't hang up! Some people hang up on TRS calls because they think the caller is a telemarketer. If you hear, "Hello, this is the relay service…" when you pick up the phone, please don't hang up! You are about to talk, through a TRS provider, to a person who is deaf, hard­of­hearing, or has a speech disability. For more information about FCC programs to promote access to telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit the FCC's Disability Rights Office website.