Inside Los Feliz's Bridge Home Shelter Ryu and Raman on Police
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Los Feliz Ledger Read by 100,000+ Residents and Business Owners in Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Vol 16. No. 3 September 2020 Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood Hills Inside Los [CD4 ELECTION] Feliz’s Bridge Ryu and Raman Home Shelter on Police By Allison B. Cohen Reform By Allison B. Cohen Inside, the ceiling soars, and Erin Hickey Pinheiro creating soft diffused light. In- side, it is cool too, on an espe- The November 3rd elec- cially hot summer afternoon. tion is just around the corner, And inside, there are clean, and while the presidential race heavy wood tables, a vending may be making most of the machine and a couch near a headlines, a key local race is large television hung on the on the line too: Los Angeles wall. City Council’s District 4 seat. Inside is where 62 men Join us over the next three and 38 women who have been months as we take a deep dive living on the streets of Los An- into the policy positions of in- geles can rest for a little while cumbent David Ryu and chal- in the 10,800 square feet of lenger Nithya Raman. This space they call home for now. month: public safety and po- Inside is where homeless lice reform. men and women can stabi- Both candidates support lize, “where they can strategize reallocating a portion of police about their future and get funding to other public safety into permanent housing. And services, known commonly when that bed lets up, we can as “defund the police,” and have another 100 people and both agree that a non-armed another 100 people and an- CD 4 ELECTION CANDIDATES: Top: David Ryu marches with Pastor Charles R. Johnson of the Cochran Avenue Baptist Church response is needed for certain other,” said Los Angeles May- during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in May. Bottom: Nithya Raman speaks at a July 19th rally at Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake calling for police reform in memory of store manager Melyda Corado, who was killed by a police bullet types of calls—such as noise see SHELTER page 8 during a 2018 hostage situation at the store. see ELECTION page 16 [REAL ESTATE] 1918 and Now: Two Fires In As Many Days Near COVID-19 Changes Real Estate How the New Shelter Business Pandemics By Sorina Szakacs, Ledger Contributing Writer By Erin Hickey Pinheiro, Ledger Contributing Writer Compare As the local coronavi- probably go for over asking By Erin Hickey Pinheiro rus shut down enters its sixth price.” Ledger Contributing Writer month, leaving many indus- But while homes are back tries with reduced cash flow to selling at pre-COVID-19 The ongoing coronavi- and uncertain futures, the real levels, Uriarte said, “the show- rus crisis has drawn many estate market is stronger than ing of homes has changed tre- comparisons to the last ma- ever, and significant changes mendously.” jor global pandemic: the 1918 to the way homes are sold have Gone are the days of open flu outbreak. But while there been a boon, local realtors say. houses, when realtors would are significant similarities be- According to Edward sit in an empty home for tween the two health crises, Uriarte of Compass, after an hours each weekend waiting there are also major differ- initial slowdown when stay-at- for drop-ins. Instead, Uriarte ences. home orders first went into ef- said, the model has moved to While both pandemics fect, the market has boomed. paperwork and private show- hit the United States hard, the “The market is pretty ac- ings—with plenty of masks coronavirus originated in Wu- The fire shown above started August 20 at about 6:30 p.m. at the unoccupied L.A. tive right now,” said Uriarte. and sanitizing wipes. han, China, while the 1918 Shares building on Riverside Drive. Photo: Jack Litka. “I think it’s more active than “It’s helped out the indus- flu began here, according to anyone expected. We have try in a sense, where an indi- Harvard Global Health In- Two fires broke out in Los Feliz near the Mulhol- a home in Los Feliz that went vidual has to have an agent to stitute fellow Olga Jones. The as many days on a one-block land Fountain and a recently on the market a week ago, and even make an appointment so-called “Spanish Flu,” she stretch of Riverside Drive, opened “Bridge Home” home- it’s had multiple offers and will see REAL ESTATE page 6 see 1918 page 6 including one August 21 in see FIRE page 16 ICYMI: POLITICS: HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: COMMUNITY NEWS: THEATER: Silver Lake Resident’s Ongoing COVID-19 Coverage, Ryu & Raman on the Issues, Marshall Football’s Season Must COVID-19’s Hard Hit on One Man Show Now Online, page 2 page 5 Wait, page 15 Restaurants, page 17 losfelizledger.com Los Feliz Ledger In Case You Missed It Briefs on stories we’ve and Power (LADWP) during 16% in Los Angeles and 13% FOUNDED 2005 Available at these locations: published online since our last the COVID-19 pandemic to in Los Angeles county be- Delivered the last Thursday of Atwater Library print edition. Stay caught up have their debt forgiven. tween January 2019 and Janu- each month to 34,500 homes and 3379 Glendale Blvd. at losfelizledger.com. The motion asks the city ary 2020, according to recent- businesses in the Los Feliz, Casita del Campo to explore lending options ly revised results from the last Silver Lake, Atwater Village, 1920 Hyperion Ave LOCAL COVID-19 DEATHS with the Federal Reserve’s point-in-time count conduct- Alcove & Big Bar Echo Park and Hollywood Hills As we went to press, 105 Municipal Liquidity Facility ed by Los Angeles Homeless communities. 1929 Hillhurst Avenue Courtney + Kurt Real Estate locals had died due to CO- (MLF) program, established Services Authority (LAHSA). 1933 Hillhurst Ave. 3167 Glendale Blvd. VID-19. East Hollywood has by the Federal Reserve as part Per the new count, there Los Angeles, CA 90027 Dresden Restaurant seen the most with 43 deaths, of the CARES Act, passed by were 41,290 unhoused people (323) 741-0019 1760 N. Vermont Avenue House of Pies followed by Silver Lake with Congress this March, to fund in the city and 66,436 county- PUBLISHER/EDITOR 1869 N. Vermont 17. Please visit our website for the city’s debt relief proposal. wide as of January 2020. How- Allison B. Cohen Los Feliz Public Library daily coronavirus updates. ever, LAHSA indicated the 1874 Hillhurst Avenue SENIOR EDITOR GARCETTI CONVENES numbers have likely changed Los Feliz 3 Theaters Erin Hickey Pinheiro MR G. DIES AFTER BRIEF HOME-TESTING COALITION 1822 N. Vermont dramatically since the CO- GRAPHIC DESIGN George & Eileen Moreno, Realtors ILLNESS Los Angeles Mayor Eric VID-19 pandemic. & LAYOUT 2150 N. Hillhurst Ave. Julio Gosdinski, best Garcetti said August 13th he Locally, there were 3,907 Tiffany Sims Muddy Paws Coffee known as Mr. G, the opera- has convened a national coali- unhoused individuals in 3320 Sunset Blvd. tor of the carousel in Griffith tion of scientists, bioscience Council District 13—which For more stories Palermo Park, died August 7th at the firms and government leaders includes Atwater Village, Echo and updates: 1858 N. Vermont Silver Lake Chamber of Commerce age of 49. He had worked at to explore and develop rapid Park, and parts of Silver Lake LosFelizLedger.com 1724 W. Silver Lake Drive the carousel for over 30 years. at-home coronavirus testing and Hollywood—a 22% in- Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont methods. The working group crease from the previous year. RYU SEEKS DEBT The Village Bakery and Café is being facilitated by the U.S. In Council District 3119 Los Feliz Blvd. FORGIVENESS Conference of Mayors and 4—which includes Los Fe- Los Angeles City Coun- the National Governors As- liz, Larchmont, Koreatown and cilmember David Ryu intro- soc., which Garcetti said also parts of Silver Lake and the San duced a motion August 18th intends to push the Food and Fernando Valley—there were seeking to relieve the grow- Drug Administration and 1,072 unhoused people, a 15% Corrections & Amplifications ing rental and utility debt for Centers for Disease Control increase from the previous year. In the story “Artists Wanted for Racial Equity Poster Angelenos caused by the CO- and Prevention to accelerate That increase was based on Contest, Students Welcome” in our August edition, there VID-19 pandemic. approvals for at-home testing. revised 2019 numbers, which was a typo in the email address for poster submissions. Ryu’s proposed rent and showed CD4 had a roughly We regret the error. To submit a poster design, email an utility forgiveness plan would L.A. HOMELESS 24% increase from 2018 to image of your artwork and contact info to: dulcenstein@ allow households that were un- INCREASED 16% THIS 2019, contrary to the 53% in- yahoo.com able to pay rent or utility bills to YEAR, PRE-COVID crease initially reported using the Los Angeles Dept. of Water Homelessness increased the outdated methodology. AFTER YEARS OF NEGLECT, IT’S TIME TO SEND A PROVEN LEADER AND PROBLEM SOLVER TO WASHINGTON AGAIN WWW.ERICEARLY.COM ERIC EARLY 2020 v. 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