terest in promoting an employment environment that protects such limited resources. In creating a program that helps link contractors with potential construction workers, the City serves this interest and provides greater opportunities for employment on Proposition HHH funded construction contracts. In February 2008, the Economic Roundtable released a study commissioned by the Community Development Department titled, “Concentrated poverty in Los Angeles.” The study found that the City had higher rates of concentrated poverty than the nation and the broader Los Angeles region. In fact, “Nineteen percent or over 238,000 of the 1.3 million households in the City were living below the federal poverty threshold in 2000.” According to U.S. Census Bureau data, by 2015 the number of households living in poverty increased to 23 percent or over 309,000 of the 1.342 million households in the City. The Permanent Supportive Housing and Facilities Infrastructure Stabilization Ordinance targets construction employment and training opportunities in ways calculated to mitigate the harm caused by geographically concentrated poverty, to address unemployment and underemployment in neighborhoods where poverty is concentrated, and to advance the skills of the local labor pool, especially the youth, by maximizing opportunities to earn a prevailing wage. SECTION HISTORY Added by Ord. No. 185,523, Eff. 6-12-18.