Venice Median Site
Venice Community Housing Corporation (VCH) along with Hollywood Community Housing Corporation will be partnering to build housing on the Venice Median — that area between North and South Venice Blvd on Pacific and west of Dell.
“We don’t have more details at this point, because it is not yet approved,” according to Director Beck Dennison, “but once it is approved, “we will be doing community engagement to finalize the details of the project.”
The VCH e-newsletter read: “With the passage of Proposition HHH and with overwhelming voter support, VCH looks forward to developing more permanent supportive housing in our Westside communities and working with our development partners to ensure 10,000 units are built throughout all neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles!
“As a next step in building housing and reducing homelessness, VCH is proud and excited to share that we, with our partners at Hollywood Community Housing Corporation and Eric Owen Moss Architects, have been recommended for approval to build affordable and permanent supportive housing on the city-owned parking lots at Venice and Pacific Boulevards. The recommendation has to be approved by City Council before it is finalized, and the recommendation is based on a preliminary project concept. If Council approves, we will immediately announce opportunities for community input, engagement, and feedback to inform and create the final project proposal. Please feel free to reach out to us at any time with any questions – your support for VCH and this project is much appreciated!”
If this project gets approved. The Venice residents are doomed. Hopefully the stores on Abbot Kinney will be selling hazmat suits,
Dear “MoreJuiceNeeded” (AKA Troll-about town…) and the only one throwing poop has been you. As for getting along with the new population you seem to be promoting, I ask, will they ever all be housed, or will only a small percentage, and will the community also be expected to continue to host hundreds of campers and vagabonds on the streets and beach as well? It is great that there is services, storage, and showers for the folks on third, but how many more will be needed when the word is out that they exist and even more people show up to partake? And mostly, how do you expect these two populations to coexist, when one views the rest as “rich fucks” and sees nothing wrong with crime, disorder and unsanitary conditions as the penance they have to pay for their greed and privilege? Apparently, there is no positive outcome in the plans, only a place to store people who do not fit into what America has become for the rest of their lives….. at the residents expense, in both property values and quality of life.