A motel in West Hollywood has been repurposed to serve as a housing complex for unsheltered individuals.<\/p>\n
The Holloway Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard will serve as a bridge to permanent housing for those who are experiencing homelessness. Its ribbon-cutting celebration was held Tuesday by the city and Ascencia, a nonprofit organization that provides housing resources.<\/p>\n
Among the speakers who were present at the ribbon-cutting was Kylee Lolla, who experienced the struggles of housing instability firsthand.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou cannot have a peace of mind without a place to rest your head, bottom line,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The new Holloway Interim Housing Program comes as a partnership between the city and Ascenia. West Hollywood received a grant to purchase the motel in 2022 to convert it into temporary housing. With the renovations complete, the building can house 20 people in need.<\/p>\n
In addition to providing shelter, the housing program will offer participants mental health care, financial literacy education and employment support. Long-term housing support will also be offered.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust stabilizing people, helping rebuild that trust, that’s so essential to taking more services and support,\u201d said West Hollywood Mayor Chelsea Byers. \u201cThat’s what is key to happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we’re going to help a lot of people and save a lot of lives,\u201d said Laura Dunan, Ascencia\u2019s Executive Director.<\/p>\n
Staff will be available on-site around the clock and they\u2019re already looking to identify people who could potentially stay at the revamped shelter. People could be moving in as early as this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motel in West Hollywood has been repurposed to serve as a housing complex for unsheltered individuals. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":268780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,7265,2961,224,5337,22662],"class_list":{"0":"post-268779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-homelessness","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-west-hollywood"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115298131511616877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}