A Redondo Beach homeless shelter won’t be changing locations after all.
After several hours of debate last night, city councilmembers voted 4 to 1 to keep the 30-bed homeless shelter at a public works lot instead of moving it to the Beach Cities Health District Campus.
A handful of people voiced concern because an assisted living home, Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care Community, is located on the health campus.
“Silverado is a residence for over 80 people who live there with Alzheimer's and other memory-impairment diseases. This is the most vulnerable population,” said a caller.
If you look at Silverado’s perspective, where we are, it is actually going to be located on-site Silverado residents home,” said another community member at the meeting.
Despite Silverado residents' concerns, City Attorney Mike Webb said Redeondo Beach’s shelter has been so successful at providing services that other cities were copying its model, which began housing a portion of the city’s 100 homeless persons in October 2020.
The 15-unit shelter is made of highly durable aluminum and composite materials.
Webb said the tiny-home village, or pallet shelter, has an outdoor Homeless Court, which deals only with local cases of homelessness-related misdemeanors.
The shelter also provides mental health services and has permanently placed nearly two dozen homeless into permanent homes, according to Webb.
The shelter will stay at its current location near the South Bay Galleria.
