Redondo Beach is adding to its bridge housing available for people experiencing homelessness.
The city is renting 13 more units from a private homeless shelter in Wilmington, bringing the number spaces it holds there for people who are homeless in Redondo Beach to 18.
The City Council approved the new leases at its meeting this week.
Redondo in 2020 first rented five of the undisclosed shelter’s 28 single-room-occupancy transitional housing units, and last year got a grant from the South Bay Cities Council of Governments to expand.
Money from the $245,000 grant, called the Local Solution Fund, will pay each unit’s $988 monthly rent along with $12.50 renter’s insurance for another year. The new leases will expire Oct. 17, 2025.
Each unit has a bed with shared bath, kitchen and living spaces for people while they work on steps to get to permanent housing. The 28-unit building is also used by other organizations, such as Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, Collaborative Housing, and Exodus Recovery.
Redondo Beach also has a pallet shelter for transitional housing near the South Bay Galleria, which is undergoing expansion from 20 units to 45. Those new single-room-occupancy cabins are made of aluminum and will be 70 square feet, bigger than the existing 64-square foot ones.
In other homelessness initiatives around the South Bay, El Segundo has launched a a six-month pilot program during which that city’s Police Department will prioritize offering shelter and services before taking enforcement action, also giving more advanced notice for the dismantling of encampments in the public-right-of-way.
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