As state-funded homeless housing sites expand across Los Angeles, a review of 911 calls, internal records, and community accounts reveals rising violence, untreated mental health crises, and a system struggling to deliver on its promises.
LOS ANGELES – The elevator doors at 5050 West Pico Boulevard open onto a dim hallway scrawled with graffiti. Down the corridor, someone shouts incoherently. A man stumbles past, barefoot and muttering. Moments earlier, a resident had offered a warning: after dark, this place turns into a drug den.
This isn’t an alley in Skid Row. It is a Project Homekey site – part of California’s flagship response to homelessness…