L.A. City and County Will Take In 2,000 Hurricane Evacuees

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and County Supervisor Gloria Molina announced a joint task force that will assist hurricane survivors, and have plans to accommodate up to 2,000 people. Here is the article from the Daily Breeze.

The County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to identify 20 facilities that will shelter 100 people each.

An article in the Daily News quotes Supervisor Molina: “There is no doubt that this is a huge responsibility that we are choosing to take on. But given what we have witnessed, we have no choice but to do what we can to assist the survivors.” The Daily Breeze quotes her as saying that although 2,000 people might strain the region’s resources, it is a manageable number.

The task force plans to also identify homeless shelters and vacant public housing as possible places to house the survivors.

Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky thinks that the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration building could also be a potential site.

Perhaps when we have taken care of these 2,000 people, and returned them to permanent housing, we could use these sites to help 2,000 more homeless people off the streets of Los Angeles…