Los Angeles wanted to build 15 temporary shelters around the city or " bridge shelters" designed to get people pointed toward permanent housing.
But a group in Venice is pushing back hard.
The city attorney’s office declined to comment on the legal action.
KNX has reached out to council-member Mike Bonin’s office.
Council-member Mike Bonin represents Venice and he tells KNX the Venice Stakeholders’ Association has a history of rigid opposition to any potential solutions to the homelessness crisis.
"They've objected to long term housing, they've objected to bridge housing. It seems to me that the only thing the Venice Stakeholders Association dislikes more than homeless encampments are solutions to homeless encampments," he said.
Bonin says while the Stakeholders Association is noisy opponents to housing for the homeless, many Venice residents support the idea.
The Venice Stakeholders’ Association insists a 154-bed bridge shelter, on the proposed site property owned by MTA, is too close to homes, preschools, and children overall.
Mark Ryavec, who is the president of the Association, insists there are better locations available in Westchester and West LA and that officials refuse to even consider them.
He also points to a study in Vancouver "that shows facilities like this routinely, over a number of years in that city, increased property crimes by 56 percent."
Ryavec says they expect to be in court on May 10 over the preliminary injunction.