The city of Los Angeles will get $21.8 million in federal funds to help house and provide support services to newly arrived migrants, including migrant children living on Skid Row, officials announced.
City officials, with support from the county, had applied for Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to shelter newly arrived migrants who have struggled to find housing after arriving in Los Angeles.
Local officials and advocates have pledged to welcome migrants who have arrived in recent years and offer them help. But those efforts have been challenged by the city’s acute housing crisis…