First of Los Angeles' temporary homeless shelters to open
LOS ANGELES - With a cluster of trailers on a downtown parking lot, the city of Los Angeles is launching the first in a string of multimillion-dollar shelters designed to relieve hundreds of homeless people while sweeping away squalid street camps that threaten Mayor Eric Garcetti's political legacy.
The $2.4 million shelter is set to open Monday for 45 homeless people in the El Pueblo historic district, part of the city's A Bridge Home crisis housing project.
Officials hope to open 15 so-called bridge housing facilities by mid-2019, with a boost from one-time state homeless aid that could bring the program's budget to $75 million. Some 13 sites are in formal review, and others are in preliminary
