TITLE
Recommendation to declare an ordinance amending Long Beach Municipal Code Section 2.84.170 to extend the temporary suspension of certain provisions of Title 2.84.100 for projects which address ongoing impacts caused by homelessness for one-year to July 23, 2024; read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City staff requested the City Attorney’s Office to prepare the attached Ordinance amending Section 2.84.170 of the Long Beach Municipal Code (LBMC) to extend the expiration date of the temporary suspension of provisions that remove the single job order threshold of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) in an effort to renovate facilities and build free and affordable housing to combat the homelessness crisis.
According to the City of Long Beach’s (City) 2023 Point in Time Count, the City has approximately 3,447 people experiencing homelessness.
Homelessness has disproportionately impacted Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander Long Beach residents who are approximately three times more likely to experience homelessness than other populations. Black people comprise only 12 percent of the population of the City, but in the most recent homelessness count completed in January 2023, accounted for approximately 30 percent of people experiencing homelessness. Approximately 38 percent of people experiencing homelessness have experienced violence or trauma in their lives. The number of students experiencing homelessness has grown by approximately 2.5 percentage points since 2022.
The State of California's COVID-19 State of Emergency that provided resources to keep many Long Beach residents from falling into homelessness ended February 28, 2023. On January 10, 2023, the City Council adopted a Resolution proclaiming a homelessness emergency in Long Beach. The City took immediate action to create additional housing to shelter and support homeless residents and build the ne...
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