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# Top 10 Reasons Los Angeles Homelessness Will Soar Again in 2018
January 04 2018
Written by 2 Preserve LA.
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**HOMELESS WATCH--1)** Cost to build a SINGLE UNIT of “supportive housing” for LA’s homeless: **$421,433** *(footnote 1)*
**2)** Cost to BUY a 1-bedroom CONDO in Westlake, or a 4-bedroom HOME in Riverside: **$421,000** (2)
**3)** Number of homeless units built under Mayor Garcetti with $1.2 billion in HHH bonds: **ZERO** (3)
**4)** Cash spent by developers in 2017 to influence the City Council, mayor & officials to build MORE luxury housing: **$4.8 million** (4)
**5)** Skid Row’s average rent after the City Council gentrified the area for urban hipsters: **$1,900/mo.** (5)
**6)** Of 20 new residential towers slated for South Park, number that offer affordable units – **TWO** (6)
**7)** Affordable units planned for Westfield Promenade’s 1,400-unit mega-project in the Valley: **ZERO** (7)
**8)** Number of households evicted by L.A. landlords so they could jack up rents in 2017: **1,200** (8)
**9)** Number of affordable bungalows & units razed by L.A. developers in 2017: **“City Hall doesn’t keep track.”** (9)
**10)** Number of toilets Garcetti opened for 1,800 homeless people on Skid Row in 2017: **EIGHT** (10)
*FOOTNOTES*
1. To view the data click [here](http://hcidla.lacity.org/prop-hhh-developments-summary) then scroll to the link "Prop HHH Developments Financial report."
2. “[Inland Empire Homes Between $400,000 and $450,000](http://www.welovesellingrealestate.com/idx/listings/inland-empire-homes-between-400000-and-450000),” "[One of Only of Four Units in This Building"](https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/400-S-Lafayette-Park-Pl-90057/unit-310/home/6935196) “;
3. “[Our LA: Top 10 Best (Open Space!) and Worst (Road Diets!) of 2017](http://2preservela.org/our-la-top-10-best-open-space-and-worst-road-diets-of-2017),”
4. [https://ethics.lacity.org/pdf/pressrelease/press\_121917\_Lobbying\_Q3.pdf](https://ethics.lacity.org/pdf/pressrelease/press_121917_Lobbying_Q3.pdf); [http://2preservela.org/developers-spend-big-bucks-lobbyists-influence-la-politicians;http://2preservela.org/pay-to-play-los-angeles-developers-control-what-la-becomes](http://2preservela.org/developers-spend-big-bucks-lobbyists-influence-la-politicians;http:/2preservela.org/pay-to-play-los-angeles-developers-control-what-la-becomes);
5. “[Wholesale District/Skid Row Los Angeles Apartments](https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/condo,apartment_duplex_type/34.047099,-118.246252,34.040352,-118.253998_rect/16_zm;),”
6. “[South Park: Mapping 27 Projects](https://la.curbed.com/maps/south-park-downtown-la-construction-projects),”
7. Approved by City Hall to create a [“new downtown,”](http://promenade2035.com/download/Westfield-Promenade-2035-Fact-Sheet.pdf)
8. *LA Weekly*, “[Evictions from Rent-Controlled Apartments in L.A. Double](http://www.laweekly.com/news/los-angeles-housing-crisis%C2%A0rocked-by-evictions-8474157),”
9. “LA City Council: ‘[City Hall is Clueless about Its Role in Fueling Homelessness,](https://ded2209.inmotionhosting.com/~citywa9/index.php/the-la-beat/11344-la-city-council-city-hall-is-clueless-about-it-srole-in-fueling-homelessness;)’”
10. *Los Angeles Times*, [“L.A. Adds More Public Toilets as Homeless Crisis Grows,”](http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-skid-row-toilets-20171204-story.html)
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