Design for Equity: Introduction to an Eight-Part Feature Series
From the Impact Design Hub website.
Star Apartments Wins Central City East “Downtowners of Distinction” Award
See page 8 of Feb 23 issue of LA DT News.
Skid Row health care includes housing patients
Seattle Times: Los Angeles County has launched Housing for Health, which some experts call the nation’s most promising initiative to end homelessness. The program subsidizes rents for the very sick among the county’s 39,000 homeless, keeping them out of ambulances, emergency rooms — and jail.
With focus on minimum wage, Los Angeles leaders slow to tackle affordable housing challenges
Alice Walton, KPCC
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced a 10-year plan to build 200,000 affordable housing units. In San Francisco, voters approved a ballot measure to build or refurbish 10,000 affordable units by 2020.
Skid row doctor’s care includes finding patients a home
LA Times Online – Local / California: Dr. Susan Partovi, makes her rounds on skid row in downtown Los Angeles. She has worked in homeless medicine for 12 years.
Building our own Leadership: Community Advocates Advocating for Change
Leadership Development: Community Advocates Advocating for Change
Off the Streets: Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan designs buildings for homeless people in his city. Five of them tell their story.
Mark Magazine features Maltzan and five Skid Row Housing Trust residents.