City-Owned Property In Boyle Heights Transforming Into Affordable Housing

Councilmember Huizar, along with Jovenes, Inc., announced that a vacant City-owned property in Boyle Heights will be transformed by Jovenes to house formerly homeless college students. One in five community college students in Los Angeles is reportedly experiencing homelessness, and the 2017 Homeless Count found a 64% increase in youth homelessness.
Also this month, a City committee approved Councilmember Huizar’s motion to help Jovenes serve even more homeless youth by recommending that Jovenes develop City-owned property adjacent to their Pleasant Ave headquarters to allow them to create a wider campus of services - great news for an outstanding community partner!
“Jovenes, Inc. is one of our premiere homeless service partners in Boyle Heights serving one of the most vulnerable populations imaginable - our youth,” said Councilmember Huizar. “It is imperative that the City assist them to give kids hope and a future that they might not have otherwise. Education is one of this country’s great equalizers, and this 4th Street location and the College Success Initiative is going to be a place of inspiration - where, with the excellent support services that Jovenes Inc. and its partners provide, youth have the opportunity to go to college, have a place to call home, and succeed.”