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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Traci Park receives campaigns contributions from the contractor working to convert Ramada Homekey into housing

roofless @roof.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This Ramada Inn was purchased for $10M by the State thru Homekey & transferred to @pathpartners for $1M. It received an add’l $8.5M, incl $1.5M from HHH @ at the end of last year. Yet it has been VACANT since 2022! 7 people are dying on the streets of LA DAILY. Who is holding up this housing?

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The City pays every night for all 23 rooms at this Inside Safe motel, which has a contract through 9/30, but most of the rooms stay empty:

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 #LosAngeles #homeless #spending 💸💸💸💸💸💸 Who got rich off #ABridgeHome in #VeniceBeach? 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 #audit #lahsa #reciepts 🦛

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It just opened on the 15th! How many houses have been rebuilt yet??

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

@redcrossla.bsky.social is already shutting down the Duarte #LAFires shelter, making fire victims displaced and unsheltered…

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#StayHousedLA #UnitedtoHouseLA #LosAngeles #CityofLA www.stayhousedla.org/priority-zip... ZIP prioritization inevitably creates inequities in legal housing assistance for tenants. #redlining #eviction #displacement #segregation #housing #right2counsel #tenant #union #organizing #rentstrike

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

(2/2) Why does #StayHousedLA collect #MansionTaxes from every ZIP in the #CityofLA, but #UnitedToHouseLA assistance is denied for all but 14 “priority” ZIP codes in the City of #LosAngeles?

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

(1/2) I asked ULACOC why #UnitedtoHouseLA had collected $10M in contributions from #MansionTaxes from 10 real estate sales in 90291… …but tenants in 90291 only got $100k in #StayHousedLA assistance!

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

(2/2) I asked ULACOC why they’re considering helping fire victims in particular. A functional re-housing system would be able to accommodate fire victims’ applications along with everyone elses’…

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

(1/2) I spoke to United to House LA’s Citizen Oversight Commission on 2/13 about my friend Ava’s eviction. It was the first time ULACOC had met since the #LAFire:

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If so, she knew exactly what she was doing, because she would be promoted to acting CEO and then CEO of LAHSA, despite displacing 72 veterans into homelessness in Echo Park.

“Somehow at some point” Part 2
Why do paid homeless advocates align with gentrification goals instead of their vulnerable clients?

https://roofless.substack.com/p/somehow-at-some-point-part-2

ILLUSTRATION A veteran’s tent with American flag decorations, in front of a background with Los Angeles’ palm trees and purple mountains majesty

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Did Heidi Marston bring the contract for the Gateways cottages with her when she transferred to LAHSA from the VA?

ILLUSTRATION a lake with a scenic view of mountains and palm trees enclosed by a chain link fence

https://roofless.substack.com/p/somehow-at-some-point-part-2

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Heidi Marston, the CEO of LAHSA made an appearance at the raid. Interestingly, she had worked at the VA for about 10 years prior to transferring to LAHSA as Chief Program Officer in 2019, just two months prior to the displacement of the veterans from Gateways Cottages.

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Two years after 72 veterans were displaced from cottages at Gateways Hospital in Echo Park, and 1 mile away LAPD raided Echo Park Lake in what resembled somewhat of a warzone, ultimately displacing around 200 unhoused people.

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

That same year, 2019, the federal government awarded the city and county of Los Angeles ZERO HUD-VASH vouchers for veterans (permanent housing vouchers for veterans and their families to live in private housing)

Combined HUD-VASH awards to The HACLA (City) + LACDA (County) by Fiscal Year, including Project-Based Voucher “PBV” awards

Data: HUD

FY • [CA002 + CA004 + PBVs]

08 • 840

09 • 385

10 • 525

11 • 300

12 • 800

13 • 775

14 • 847

15 • 755

16 • 586

17 • 816

18 • 678

19 • 0

20 • 500

21 • 0

22 • 500

23 • 0

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

72 veterans were displaced from Echo Park when the VA was outbid on a cluster of cottages at Gateways Hospital by LAHSA, using homeless prevention funds controlled by County Supervisor Hilda Solis.

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

$9M laundered to LAPD with nothing to show for it except a matrix that claims 221 people were “housed”. LAPD doesn’t have access to housing resources to distribute to the unhoused people they frequently incarcerate.

LAPD MATRIX Year-to-Date A BRIDGE HOME Overtime Details Report by division and precinct. Columns include deployment, productivity, arrests by type, other. Highlights: 1,530 impoundments, 232 RV operations, 701 CARE/CARE+, 118 felonies, 39 repopulation , 221 PEH “housed”, 1,968 “offers”, 37,764.9 hours used, 5,713.1 remain

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

LAPD are now being paid generous overtime to “secure” locations as benign as a Metro park-and-ride lot, where A Bridge Home’s Aetna Street location, operated by The Salvation Army, stood from August 2020 to August 2023.

Mayor Eric Garcetti’s legacy “A Bridge Home” homeless shelter initiative is finally winding down as leases on many of the properties are expiring.

On the aerial view, the footprint of the shelter designed by City-contracted Lehrer Architects, whose president Michael Lehrer sat on the Board of Homeless Health Care Los Angeles, is clearly visible

That means LAPD are now being paid generous overtime to “secure” locations as benign as a Metro park-and-ride lot, where A Bridge Home’s Aetna Street location, operated by The Salvation Army, stood from August 2020 to August 2023

ILLUSTRATION empty, fenced parking lot in the San Fernando Valley

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Are LAPD service providers? The average LAPD gets around $1,000 out of this account each year.

4,390 sworn officers (including eight Lieutenants and 535 Seargeants) out of LAPD’s total 8,799 sworn officers, or half the entire force, billed for overtime out of this homeless services account in the eight-month period from July 1, 2022 to February 12, 2023:

DONUT CHART LAPD IHHS Overtime 7/1/22–2/12/23 • 8,799 total sworn LAPD • 50% billed for IHHS (4,390) • 50% did not (4,409) • Source: LAPD OLOTS data

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

The account, earmarked for housing and services for homeless people, seems to keep replenishing, only to get diverted away from the intended unhoused recipients again.

One of the Los Angeles Police Department’s many overtime sources amounts to 88,353 hours, or 10 continuous years of 24/7 overtime at $8.36M.

At a generous rate of $94.62 per hour, LAPD siphons OT from an account conspicuously called:

“Other Homeless Services-Interim Homeless Housing ‘IHHS’”.

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

👁️ EXPOSED 👁️ 👮‍♂️ LAPD slush fund for “Interim housing-Homeless services” 💸 $100/hour for ten continuous years Former Mayor Garcetti’s “A Bridge Home” + SECZ “sexy zones” turned a City account for homelessness into an LAPD overtime “carve-out”, paying bonuses to half the force in one 8-month period.

EXPOSED LAPD slush fund for “Interim housing-Homeless services”
Former Mayor Garcetti’s “A Bridge Home” and SECZ “sexy zones” turned a City account for homelessness into an LAPD overtime “carve-out”, paying bonuses to half the force in one 8-month period.

RUTH 10/9/24

ILLUSTRATION my interpretation of a Lehrer-designed City-run homeless shelter, complete with distinctive orange umbrellas and large geometric shapes painted into the ground for milder microclimates

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

Inside Safe $1 in $5 spent on Inside Safe has gone to LAPD. At this rate, $60M of the $300M budgeted for Inside Safe will go to LAPD instead of paying for more housing.

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 14/07/2023

CORRECTION an additional $6M should have been attributed to LAPD… LAPD spent $100k in the first 100 days…& then $6M in overtime (possibly for 24/7 monitoring) from day 101 thru now?! Just like A Bridge Home & Tiny Home Villages, Inside Safe has become a money laundering project for LAPD.

35% $14M INTERIM HOUSING
L.A. GRAND hotel in DTLA
(671 beds in 487 rooms)
+12 motels

35% $14M NONPROFITS
CONTRACTED to provide SERVICES like case mgmt & housing navigation

12% $5M UNKNOWN
Maybe: storage, food, application fees, security deposits?

18% $7M DOT
& LAPD O.T. (why?)

35% $14M INTERIM HOUSING
L.A. GRAND hotel in DTLA
(671 beds in 487 rooms)
+12 motels

35% $14M NONPROFITS
CONTRACTED to provide SERVICES like case mgmt & housing navigation

27% $11M UNKNOWN
Maybe: storage, food, application fees, security deposits?

3% $1M DOT
& LAPD O.T. (why?)

https://abc7.com/homeless-karen-bass-inside-safe-40-million/13469473/

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

TOMORROW Thurs 7/13 @2pm SUPPORT Skid Row Housing Trust tenants by showing up to Court with them @ 111 N. Hill St. in DTLA (Stanley Mosk Courthouse, right off the Metro B-Line/Red Line) PLEASE SHARE!

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

This is the complicated process of getting people into actual housing from an INSIDE SAFE hotel/motel shelter. Only 77 of 6% out of the 1,400 people who have already moved indoors over the last 7 months have made it into housing.

Interim Housing > Housing Navigation &
Time-Limited Subsidy [IH > HN & TLS]

Slot turnover | Referral > Enrollment > Exit

Interim Housing
-max 2 yrs by law for transitional housing
Participant enters IH
Enroll participant into IH
Refer to HN slot based on IH longevity + docs

Housing Navigation
-Search
EHV in-hand or referral from IH + docs
Referred participant enrolled in HN
Exit HN once settled into unit. Slot opens

Time-limited subsidy
-Max 1yr
Applications w/HN, alert to hold TLS slot
TLS slot filled, sign lease & move-in w/ HN
Exit participant from program. TLS slot opens

Permanent Housing Unit
-Stability
Case management, unit retention
Progressive rental assistance
Transition participant out with resources

Will security deposit be returned to participant?
Can lease be renewed?
Will rent go up?

Music: Lil Uzi Vert “You Better Move”

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Newly-elected @MayorOfLA @KarenBassLA created INSIDE SAFE as her solution for offering interim shelter & eventual permanent housing to people who live outdoors at certain locations within the City of Los Angeles, but info IE contracts, budgets & metrics have been hard to come by.

Isometric hotel graphic illustration with INSIDE SAFE. By @roofless

1,400 people have moved indoors in the past 7 months.

12 motels are participating plus L.A. Grand hotel in DTLA.

77 people have been “exited” to “permanent housing”.

$40M spent + $260M more has already been approved.

Goal: House 14k people in 1 year.

35% $14M INTERIM HOUSING
L.A. GRAND hotel in DTLA
(671 beds in 487 rooms)
+12 motels

35% $14M NONPROFITS
CONTRACTED to provide SERVICES like case mgmt & housing navigation

27% $11M UNKNOWN
Maybe: storage, food, application fees, security deposits?

3% $1M DOT
& LAPD O.T. (why?)

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roofless @roof.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Prior to becoming homeless… (pie chart) I MADE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS OR HELD A LEASE: 32% I was incarcerated: 19% I stayed somewhere for $0/month: 24.5% I paid ≈$450/month off a lease: 24.5% linktr.ee/rooflesser for link to source

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