LOS ANGELES (CNS)—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider a motion June 23 to pull up to $20 million in funding earmarked for affordable housing to use it instead for rent relief.
The motion, co-authored by Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Mark Ridley-Thomas, is aimed at preventing a huge uptick in homelessness as a result of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. They have asked their colleagues to relax a rule set by the board in 2015 that requires at least 75 percent of $100 million set aside for the Affordable Housing Programs Budget Unit be spent on new housing or renovations.
