LOS ANGELES – A controversial Westside homeless housing project has been officially blocked on account of questionable building appraisals paired with backroom deals to raise the budget by nearly $50 million.
Following nearly a decade of proposal attempts, the Venice Dell is officially off the table – with the city homeless project now deemed “infeasible and unauthorized.” These findings land one week after County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath announced a $3 million county loan to revive Venice Dell, presenting the plan as a housing project the city was blocking.
Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto’s rebuttal is sharp. In a new public-interest report, she notes that the Venice Dell project “never has been ‘approved,'” and therefore “could not be ‘revived.'”…