OPEN HOUSE & PRESS CONF: Wednesday, February 14th 10:30 AM to 1:30pm
Also: New 'Morador de rua' billboards echo iconic ‘Hollywood’ sign, cut to the heart of the crisis in L.A. and also expose bureaucrats’ lax response (See: ‘LAScandal.org’)
LOS ANGELES (February 14, 2018) On Valentine’s Day, Wednesday, February 14th, defensores e funcionários com 'Fundação para Habitação Saudável da AHF,’ a new program spearheaded by AHF to address the housing crisis by providing faster access to transitional and longer-term housing with a focus on addressing the needs of low-income individuals and those unsheltered or homeless, are opening their doors—and their hearts—with a Valentine’s Day ‘We Love LA!’ open house and press event at the Hotel Madison in Downtown Los Angeles (423 E. 7th Street LA, CA 90014).
The open house will showcase the Foundation’s work-in-progress repurposing the Madison Hotel, a 220 room Single-Room-Occupancy (SRO) hotel on Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles, into transitional housing for the homeless and low-income individuals, with priority placement offered to those with chronic health conditions.
Informações gerais sobre a 'Healthy Housing Foundation by AHF' e o Madison Hotel & Sunset 8 Motel
The launch of the ‘Healthy Housing Foundation by AHF’ is part of a community-based effort to address the exploding housing and homelessness crisis in Los Angeles. AHF purchased the Madison Hotel , no centro de Los Angeles, em outubro de 2017, seguido rapidamente pela compra, em janeiro de 2018, de um motel com 27 quartos. no coração de Hollywood, conhecido como o Motel Sunset 8.
‘Healthy Housing Foundation by AHF’ is renovating and upgrading both the former Sunset 8 and the Madison and is prioritizing housing placements for individuals—and in the case of the Sunset 8, individuals E families—with chronic health conditions (but not necessarily HIV or AIDS). The Madison had approximately 80 tenants in place at the time of the purchase, and NÃO Madison tenants have been or will be displaced or evicted as that transition and renovation process continues to unfold.
New ‘Homeless’ Billboard Campaign Echoes Famed ‘Hollywood’ sign; Lacerates Lax Bureaucrats In addition to the open house and press briefing at the Madison Hotel on Valentine’s Day, a striking new ‘Homeless’ billboard campaign intended put the spotlight on the burgeoning homeless and housing crisis in Los Angeles as well as what many advocates see as a lax, insufficiently urgent response from bureaucrats and elected officials, launched this week with at least 15 billboards posted throughout Greater Los Angeles.
O processo de 'Morador de rua' billboards echo the iconic ‘Hollywood’ sign, except that in a subtle, ironic take, the billboard replaces the letters after the “H” and the “O” in “HOLLYWOOD” to spell out “HOMELESS.”
“Simply swapping out seven letters from the word ‘Hollywood’ and replacing them with six from the word ‘Homeless,’ in the format of the iconic Hollywood sign creates an ironic, powerful and visceral new message that cuts to the heart of the crisis here in Los Angeles and is one that many Angelenos will immediately relate to or identify with,” said Michael Weinstein, Presidente da AHF.
The only additional text on the ‘Homeless’ billboard is the web address for ‘LAScandal.org’ (done in the style of the ubiquitous green Caltrans freeway signs posted throughout the state) where viewers of the billboards and the public can get information on the homeless crisis, learn about the sclerotic response from government and elected officials and find links to directly contact their L.A. City Council Member or L.A. County Supervisor to urge them to act decisively and more quickly to address the crisis.
Panorama da crise imobiliária: Los Angeles
- A contagem de pessoas sem-teto no Condado de Los Angeles em 2017 foi de quase 58,000 (57,794), um aumento de 23% em relação a 2016.
- O aumento acentuado, para quase 58,000, sugeriu que o caminho para a situação de sem-teto continua a superar os esforços intensificados que — por meio de subsídios de aluguel, novas construções, assistência social e serviços de apoio — tiraram mais de 14,000 pessoas das ruas permanentemente no ano passado.Los Angeles Times, 31/5/17 por Doug Smith e Gale Holland)
- O número de pessoas sem-teto também aumentou drasticamente na cidade de Los Angeles em 2017, com mais de 34,000 indivíduos, um aumento de 20% em relação a 2016.LA Times 5 / 31 / 17)
O preço de compra do Hotel Madison foi $7,575,000(O estacionamento custou US$ 450 mil – totalizando US$ 8,025,000.00, menos um crédito de reparo de US$ 25 mil e uma doação de US$ 50 mil para a AHF – preço líquido de US$ 7,950,000), ou aproximadamente US$ 36 mil por quarto ou unidade.
O preço de compra do edifício de 27 quartos Motel Sunset 8 O valor era de 4.6 milhões de dólares, ou 170,370 dólares por quarto ou unidade.
