A lot of families do opt to go beyond Los Angeles and look at places like Lancaster and Palmdale." "When you have a family who is experiencing homelessness, anytime you’re looking at a unit over one bedroom, it increases the challenges because it gets more and more expensive. and that makes the price go up," Shirley said. "A lot of people are willing to pay the price to live in L.A. There was the $1,800 two-bedroom where she could barely fit one bunk bed, let alone the two she needed for four of her kids. “There’s a level of trauma that exists when you’re homeless to begin with, but when you’re experiencing it again when you think you’re settled - that's beyond words," said Tiffany Shirley, PATH's director of family services. Jafet Martinez Oceguera helps the family move out of their apartment in the 700 block of East 27th Street in South L.A.
In response, Councilman Curren Price’s office moved to assist with housing those who were displaced, setting up a $1-million emergency relief fund and eventually booking rooms at the Level, a luxury hotel. The explosion ripped through the neighborhood - injuring 17 people and badly damaging homes, businesses and cars. Then, on June 30, the LAPD badly miscalculated the amount of fireworks they had placed into a containment vessel before detonating them. "We were doing the best we could," said Jafet Martinez Oceguera, Juana's son. Like others along the street, the Oceguera family lived paycheck to paycheck. Three other families in their building had been placed there through the nonprofit. PATH provided a subsidy to help cover the $2,650 rent.
three-bedroom apartment on East 27th Street only through the help of Los Angeles nonprofit People Assisting the Homeless, known as PATH. They were able to move into the South L.A. Unable to pay rent, they parked their Chevrolet Silverado on Wilshire and Western and lived out of it for months. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)Ī couple of years ago her husband got sick and couldn't work. apartment, which became inhabitable after it was damaged in an explosion caused by the LAPD. Juana Oceguera takes stock of her South L.A.
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