Sale of Building to Homeless Group OKd
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The Los Angeles City Council agreed Friday to sell a city-owned Westside apartment building to a nonprofit homeless assistance organization to provide permanent housing for the poor.
Council members gave the go-ahead to People Assisting The Homeless to purchase the four-unit building at 5105 W. 20th St. for $314,000 with a 3% loan from the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency.
The CRA has sold at least two other buildings to homeless groups in the downtown area, said Bill Jones, the CRA director of rehabilitation.
PATH helps more than 3,500 people a year through its referral and counseling center, 30-bed men’s shelter and 21-bed “transitional” shelter where homeless singles and families can live rent-free for up to 60 days after finding jobs so they can start saving money, Smollar said.
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