LOS ANGELES – When the special master overseeing a city court-ordered agreement to provide thousands of homeless shelter beds made a spot check at a South Los Angeles shelter she was disappointed in what she found.
The shelter in the parking lot of the historic but shuttered Lincoln Theater in South Los Angeles is a bare-bones affair: gray tents pitched on wooden platform in rows on two parking lots. The homeless services provider Urban Alchemy has a $2.3-million contract to provide 88 beds there.
But on her visit in June, special master Michele Martinez saw tents on only one parking lot. On the other were 44 bare platforms…