Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Life wasn’t easy on the streets. But, for a time, it was at least predictable.Terrance Whitten would hang out all day at Farmers Market, the Beverly Center or the Fairfax Library. Then he’d catch the bus to his secret sleeping place: the storage unit where he kept his belongings. His future brightened when his case manager told him he’d been matched to an apartment in Glassell Park. He filled out the paperwork and previewed the unit.His written record of what came next screams with all-caps pain: “LIBRARIES CLOSE!”; “ALL CITY AGENCIES CLOSE!!!!”;...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Life wasn’t easy on the streets. But, for a time, it was at least predictable.Terrance Whitten would hang out all day at Farmers Market, the Beverly Center or the Fairfax Library. Then he’d catch the bus to his secret sleeping place: the storage unit where he kept his belongings. His future brightened when his case manager told him he’d been matched to an apartment in Glassell Park. He filled out the paperwork and previewed the unit.His written record of what came next screams with all-caps pain: “LIBRARIES CLOSE!”; “ALL CITY AGENCIES CLOSE!!!!”;...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement During an ebullient January ceremony for the first project completed with funding from the city’s , Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti framed the moment as a turning point. “We will see an opening of one of these about every three weeks this year,” Garcetti said.That didn’t happen. Nearly six months later, there has been only one other opening to celebrate. Five other projects that were scheduled to open by now have not, and dozens of others have had their schedules pushed back by months.AdvertisementAlready sharply for its slow...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement During an ebullient January ceremony for the first project completed with funding from the city’s , Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti framed the moment as a turning point. “We will see an opening of one of these about every three weeks this year,” Garcetti said.That didn’t happen. Nearly six months later, there has been only one other opening to celebrate. Five other projects that were scheduled to open by now have not, and dozens of others have had their schedules pushed back by months.AdvertisementAlready sharply for its slow...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records by The Times shows.More than a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s program to get homeless people off the streets, the occupied rooms account for — at most — less than 5% of the 151,000 people who sleep on street corners, under bridges and in emergency shelters across California.As of Monday, 7,919 hotel rooms had guests and another 7,700 were vacant,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records by The Times shows.More than a month into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s program to get homeless people off the streets, the occupied rooms account for — at most — less than 5% of the 151,000 people who sleep on street corners, under bridges and in emergency shelters across California.As of Monday, 7,919 hotel rooms had guests and another 7,700 were vacant,...WW…