Since at least 2019, LA County government officials have been quietly planning behind closed doors to build the largest and most ambitious homeless housing project in West LA while simultaneously keeping troubling facts about the potentially controversial project under wraps, beyond public scrutiny.
But the county’s days of playing games and hoodwinking the public may be over. Now, there’s growing public awareness and anxiety about the so-called Armory homeless housing project, a planned three-story, 167-bed facility on Federal Avenue just south of Wilshire Blvd. The project is the largest of its kind from Beverly Hills and Culver City to the Pacific Ocean, from Muholland Drive to Westchester, and its biggest champion is LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath.
In recent days, hundreds of local residents have signed apetition to block Horvath’s pet project, fearful that 167 homeless individuals would swamp their neighborhood and threaten their health and safety…