Paramount Plans Continue to Concern Residents Homeless
A newspaper for the 90,000 readers in Larchmont Village, Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Windsor Village, Vol 2. No. 6 Wilshire Park, Country Club Park, Lafayette Square, Oxford Square, Brookside, Mid-Wilshire and Koreatown June 20152016 Activist Group Homeless Count Sues City Is More than Over 27-Story Just Numbers “Skyscraper” By Erin Hickey Ledger Contributing Writer Mayor-Council Okays Project Over Other Homelessness is holding steady in Los Angeles City City Rejections Council District 4, while it By Sheila Lane has decreased nearly 20% in Ledger Contributing Writer Council District 10, according to results released in May from KOREATOWN—Fix the City, a citywide homeless count a community activist organi- conducted in January by Los zation, filed a lawsuit against Angeles Homeless Services the City of Los Angeles in Authority (LAHSA). April after the mayor and the Here’s how the numbers Los Angeles City Council ap- played out in the two districts. proved the construction of a 27-story building on South Council District 4 Catalina and 8th streets that There are 628 homeless was repeatedly rejected by the individuals, less than a 1% city’s planning commission. increase from a year ago, in- According to filings with dicating that while the city’s the city’s Dept. of City Plan- overall homeless population ning, the project is a mixed- Larchmont Charter School will graduate its first class of seniors this June. Seniors (from left) Denisse Say, Abigail Dolloso is growing, it is not within use building with 269 dwell- and Maya Gillett wear hats from colleges where they were accepted.
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