When the pastor of the South Los Angeles church unfurled his plans to build homeless housing, the council member assumed the visit was about money.
“It’s nice, but where are we going to come up with the cash?” Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson recalled asking.
Shortly after that meeting, Los Angeles voters passed Proposition HHH, a $1.2-billion bond measure to build homeless housing. Harris-Dawson called the pastor with the good news. “There’s money. Come by my office,” he said.
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