Council Throws a Lifeline to Social Services Programs

The Los Angeles City Council is helping to keep several Downtown social service programs afloat for another three months by turning over $1.3 million in funds that the beleaguered Community Redevelopment Agency is no longer able to provide.

The money will enable the programs, whose CRA funding runs out July 1, to keep operating while the city tries to find other ways to help pay for them.

The agencies or programs and their shares of the city funds are: Henderson Community Center, $28,740; LAMP Shelter and Public Toilets, $45,470; People Assisting the Homeless, $24,880; Weingart Center Assn., $544,970; Skid Row Development Corp., $176,740; SRO Housing Corp., $443,300, and Special Services for Groups, $58,630.