The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a plan to have 12,915 beds available to homeless people by June 2027.

The plan stems from a federal lawsuit filed by a coalition of Skid Row-area business owners and residents, known as the L.A. Alliance, in March 2020. It claimed that the city and LA County were not doing enough to address the homelessness crisis amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

In June 2020, the city and county settled the lawsuit, with the city leaders agreeing to provide 6,000 more beds by 2021. Five years later, U.S. District Judge David Carter, who presided over the 2020 hearings, determined that the city had failed to meet the settlement requirements. He ordered local leaders to create a new plan that would create 12,915 beds for homeless residents within two year

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