San Francisco Giants (54-44, 3rd in NL West) vs. Washington Nationals (39-58, 5th in NL East)

Washington; Saturday, 7:05 p.m. EDT

PITCHING PROBABIES: Giants: Logan Webb (8-7, 3.32 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 134 strikeouts); Internationals: Josiah Gray (6-8, 3.59 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 94 strikeouts)

SUMMARY: The San Francisco Giants are looking to break a three-game deficit with a win over the Washington Nationals.

Washington is 16-32 at home and 39-58 overall. The Nationals have a 31-11 record in games where they score more than their opponents.

San Francisco is 54-44 overall and 28-22 away. The Giants have a 26-9 record in games where they didn’t hit home runs.

Saturday’s game is the teams’ fifth meeting of the season. The Nationals are up 3-1 in the season series.

TOP PERFORMER: Lane Thomas has 24 doubles, two trebles and 16 homers while hitting .292 for the Nationals. Joey Meneses is 11 of 39 with three doubles and four home runs in his last 10 games.

LaMonte Wade Jr. has 13 doubles, a triple and nine home runs while hitting .275 for the Giants. Wilmer Flores has 13 of 32 with four doubles and four home runs in his last 10 games.

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 5-5, .265 batting average, 6.93 ERA, 15 runs surpassed

Giants: 7-3, .213 batting average, 3.54 ERA, seven runs better than opponents

INJURIES: Internationals: Israel Pineda: 60-day IL (fingers), Paolo Espino: 15-day IL (fingers), Hunter Harvey: 15-day IL (elbows), Cade Cavalli: 60-day IL (elbows ), Thad Ward: 15-day IL (shoulder), Carl Edwards Jr.: 15-day IL (shoulder), Victor Robles: 10-day IL (back), Stephen Strasburg: 60-day IL (ribs /shoulder), Tanner Rainey: 60-Day IL (elbow), Victor Arano: 60-Day IL (shoulder)

Giants: Brandon Crawford: 10-day IL (knee), Cole Waites: 60-day IL (elbow), Thairo Estrada: 10-day IL (hand), Thomas Szapucki: 60-day IL (arm), Luke Jackson: 15-day IL (back), Mitch Haniger: 60-day IL (forearm), John Brebbia: 15-day IL (wide), Roberto Perez: 60-Day IL (Shoulder), Luis Gonzalez: 60-Day IL (Back)

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Mark Adams, the bankruptcy trustee who oversees 1,500 Skid Row tenants, tendered his resignation Thursday, ending a turbulent three-month tenure that failed to stabilize the neighborhood’s largest inventory of homeless shelters while also incurring additional debt in the properties to charge millions.

Adams resigned at the request of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff near the end of a two-hour hearing. Beckloff ruled that disputes between Adams and city officials were overwhelming the daunting task of managing 29 properties owned by nonprofit landlord Skid Row Housing Trust.

Mayor Karen Bass and City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto had recommended Adams to manage the trust’s portfolio.

Feldstein Soto said Adams, one of the state’s most experienced bankruptcy trustees, was particularly qualified to stabilize the properties and fund repairs so other affordable housing providers could take over.

However, she admitted that her office did not fully review his resume given the urgency of the trust’s issues. Feldstein Soto and other city leaders said they lost faith in Adams when problems policing the properties escalated last month.

“It seems to me that maybe a fresh start is the way to go,” Beckloff said.

Beckloff’s hands were tied in part by the city council’s decision this week to provide $10 million in new funding only on the condition that Adams is ousted. With the Adams bankruptcy trustee running out of money after weeks of scrambling to raise funds, the judge concluded that the city’s plan was the most responsible way to continue paying for necessary upgrades and repairs.

City officials hope the funding will cover unpaid securities and other bills Adams has racked up while providing Kevin Singer, the replacement administrator that Beckloff approved Thursday, with enough dollars to maintain the trust’s properties for at least four years more months to manage.

Adams’ tenure has prolonged the turmoil faced by the trust’s formerly homeless tenants, who have endured years of mismanagement and financial hardship as conditions in the buildings steadily deteriorated. In April, with the foundation unable to pay its bills and local residents reporting poor security and property management, broken doors, windows and plumbing, and widespread trespassing and drug abuse, Beckloff Adams appointed Soto at Bass and Feldstein’s request.

Soon after, a Times report detailed previous cases under Adams’ receivership, in which property owners lost their homes, renters faced evictions, and he overbilled by six figures.

The city’s problems with Adams first came to light at a court hearing last month. He had borrowed $1.3 million for escrow operations and modernizations at a 15% interest rate, which the city said violated its obligation to only secure loans with interest rates below 10%.

Over the next week, Adams’ real estate management firm issued 451 eviction notices to tenants who failed to pay rent in May. One tenant was told he owed $56 and many others had been exempted from paying due to the poor condition of their homes. Feldstein Soto considered all postings illegal under city law.

Adams said the notices were sent without his knowledge and that he recanted them in letters to tenants.

Since then, city officials have complained that Adams does not provide them with detailed financial information and that repairs have been slow or non-existent. The number of properties with defective fire and safety equipment has more than doubled since Adams took over the portfolio, necessitating costly around-the-clock security guards, Feldstein Soto told a council committee this week.

Adams dismissed the city’s claim that fire safety had deteriorated during his tenure, saying nearly all buildings had had problems prior to his appointment.

In court filings filed this week, he said city officials made him a scapegoat for their failure to allow the trust’s portfolio to deteriorate and deliberately deprive him of cash. The condition of the city providing financial support for his replacement, he said, would be tantamount to taking trustee residents hostage while not funding essential security services and emergency repairs.

“Honestly, the city’s actions could end up costing lives,” Adams wrote.

First, Adams asked Beckloff to direct the city to provide him with $10 million in funding. But on the eve of Thursday’s hearing, Adams filed a statement saying he had reached out to Avatar Financial Group, a Seattle-based private real estate lender, for a $12 million loan at a rate of $15 % and an additional upfront fee of $800,000.

In court on Thursday, Adams continued to point out that the lack of funding was the main problem with the bankruptcy and said he was confident he could finish the job if he had access to the money.

“To say that the lack of funds is a problem is an understatement,” Adams said. “Because it’s the problem.”

Beckloff appeared to agree with Adams, repeating his praise, expressed at previous hearings, that Adams was well qualified for the role. The judge also stated that he had no problem with Adams’ work and found no wrongdoing.

Managing the trust’s properties was such a big job that Beckloff said he wasn’t sure anyone could handle it better.

However, the judge ruled that the city’s financing program, which provides an interest rate of up to 3%, was the best way forward.

“It’s gotten to a situation where I have the city in one corner and the receiver in another and there’s a lot of people around the ring,” Beckloff said. “But the focus is on 1,500 people who are at risk of becoming homeless.”

How much it will cost to repair the trust’s portfolio and who will foot the bills remains unclear.

Bankruptcy trustees typically pay for repairs and the bankruptcy trustee’s fees using the properties’ equity or using proceeds from a property sale or higher rents. But the foundation is on the brink of bankruptcy, federal and local restrictions are preventing renters from skyrocketing, and amid a homelessness crisis, city officials are desperate to find affordable housing.

The $10 million loan comes from a city affordable housing program. City officials told councilors this week that they would eventually expect a repayment as the properties would be spun off to other companies, but that the city and other public subsidies would likely have to cover at least some of the debt.

City officials and Singer, who appeared in court virtually on Thursday, developed the new $10 million budget by projecting that more than half of the trust’s affordable housing developments — the newer and more valuable properties — will be built over the next year would be transferred to other non-profit housing providers a few months. Beckloff has already approved the delivery of six of these buildings to PATH Ventures and another to LA Family Housing.

That would leave a dozen of the trust’s centuries-old residential hotels and other run-down buildings under receivership.

“We will most likely have to return to the City Council and seek additional funding after we show we’ve had great success,” Singer said.

One important variable, city leaders said, remains unknown: what Adams’ tenure will cost. Adams had hired 18 employees at hourly rates ranging from $151 to $465.

In court filings, Adams said fees for his company, California Receivership Group, in April and May totaled $329,000 — not counting what was owed to outside law firms, property management, security and other contractors he hired becomes. City attorneys told the court Thursday they believe the total outstanding bills total more than $3 million.

Feldstein Soto, who was not in court Thursday, tried to reassure council members that Singer will do a better job than Adams. At a council committee hearing this week, she cited a more thorough review of the new bankruptcy trustee’s résumé of nearly 500 cases, his work on complex matters in San Francisco and his willingness to provide the city with detailed information on his progress.

“It’s very difficult to admit a mistake,” Feldstein Soto said at the hearing. “But I think one of our jobs is to correct a mistake.”

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A City Council committee on Monday approved a recommendation to remove Mark Adams, the bankruptcy trustee in charge of overseeing 29 derelict buildings in the Skid Row area, home to about 1,500 low-income renters.

The Council’s Budget, Finance and Innovation Committee also gave the green light to a related recommendation to approve a $10 million loan for the maintenance and repair of buildings under receivership.

Both recommendations were accepted with 3-0 votes, City Councilor Monica Rodriguez was absent from Monday’s meeting.

Ann Sewill, director-general of the Housing Department, and prosecutor Hydee Feldstein Soto explained the need for the loan, which is conditional on the appointment of a new bankruptcy trustee, Kevin Singer, who would replace Adams.

“From the perspective of my office, and myself in particular, this is a difficult question,” said Feldstein Soto. “We wouldn’t be here if we weren’t convinced of the absolute necessity of preserving the housing and services for 1,500 of our most vulnerable residents.”

The council does not have the authority to fire Adams, who was appointed by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge at the request of the city. The council would have to ask Judge Mitchell Beckloff to fire Adams and appoint a new receiver.

The buildings are wholly or partly owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust, which collapsed financially earlier this year.

Sewill released a report on Friday saying some of the buildings could suffer irreparable damage and should be demolished. Additionally, the Los Angeles Times reported that many of the tenants suffer from “dirt, clogged plumbing, pest infestations, and constant intrusion from street dwellers who use drugs, set off fire alarms, and sleep in hallways.

Adams has been criticized for allegedly failing to make progress on rehabilitating the buildings and finding loans on good terms. Last spring, a company he hired sent eviction notices to hundreds of tenants who were behind on their rent.

Adams, whose appointment did not include the power to evict tenants, said he did not approve the orders and withdrew them.

Adams told the Times he would respond to the city’s report in court, citing Beckloff’s previously stated support for him.

Feldstein Soto told the committee that she wasn’t here to rehash “whatever may have happened in other receiverships in the past,” but rather to orient herself solely on the basis of “what happened in that receivership.”

She reiterated that there was a lack of transparency at Adams, including accounting for “approximately $3.5 million worth of rent,” which her office estimates Adams has collected since he was appointed bankruptcy trustee in April.

“So the proof was only obvious last Friday. And even despite a court order requiring reporting, we still haven’t received the kind of report that one would expect from a financial trustee like a bankruptcy trustee,” Feldstein Soto said.

“…We have lost confidence in the capability of this particular receiver,” she added.

Councilor Bob Blumenfield, chair of the budget committee, acknowledged that the city’s homelessness situation is a “humanitarian crisis” and asked how a new bankruptcy administration would address the above issues differently.

Feldstein Soto responded that Singer, the managing director and CEO of Receivership Specialists, was originally identified by Sewell. He was checked by the housing office and the public prosecutor’s office.

“I’ve personally spoken to the San Francisco Attorney who has given it rave reviews, and we must do our best to do the job as diligently as we can,” Feldstein Soto said.

Sewill indicated in her report that the loan will be repaid when the properties exit receivership, either by the limited partners or by other housing from the Department of Housing and possibly other government partners.

The $10 million loan is intended to pay the Adams’ bankruptcy costs and pay off expenses for up to six months. However, there may be additional costs for repairs and other expenses not yet known to the city.

Sewill stated that the goal is to stabilize the trust properties as safe places to live until each property can be transferred to a replacement general partner or owner.

“We need to have confidence that what’s happening with these buildings — with these properties — is at the level of performance that we would expect in that situation,” Feldstein Soto said.

“And for all of these reasons, it’s very difficult to admit a mistake. But I think part of our job is to correct mistakes when they happen.”

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles city officials are recommending the removal of a bankruptcy trustee who was tasked with rehabilitating 29 derelict buildings owned by the defunct Skid Row Housing Trust and overseeing the well-being of about 1,500 low-income tenants.

With the bankruptcy administration facing a financial collapse, the Los Angeles Housing Department also recommended that the City Council approve a $10 million loan to maintain and repair the buildings and pay bankruptcy costs for several more months.

Ann Sewill, director-general of the Housing Department, recapitulated a series of disputes with bankruptcy trustee Mark Adams over his alleged lack of progress and inability to obtain credit on reasonable terms, and said the loan should be made conditional on Adams being recalled becomes.

“The city has been considering possible alternatives to address the unfortunately disappointing performance of the current receiver,” Sewill wrote.

The recommendation is due to be heard by the city council’s budget and finance committee on Monday and could be presented to the full council as early as Tuesday. A spokeswoman for prosecutor Hydee Feldstein Soto, who selected Adams for receivership, said she agrees with the recommendations.

However, the city cannot independently replace Adams because he was appointed by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge at the city’s request. Instead, Judge Mitchell Beckloff would have to seek a motion to dismiss Adams and appoint a new receiver. Beckloff gave Adams a clear endorsement at the final hearing on the case.

“I appointed you because I believe you are the right person for the job,” he said during the June 15 hearing. “I still think you’re the right person for the job.”

In the report released on Friday, Sewill also gave a sober assessment of the difficult road ahead. She wrote that some of the buildings may be “damaged beyond repair” and should be demolished, and that repairs and maintenance of underwater properties will likely cost well in excess of $10 million for an unknown amount of time.

Conditions inside the buildings have deteriorated in recent years as cash flow problems caused the nonprofit to default on maintenance and cut staff and security. Nearly 800 of the trust’s 2,000 units have been foreclosed on rent subsidy due to unlivability. Residents complain of dirt, clogged pipes, pest infestations and the constant intrusion of street dwellers who use drugs, set off fire alarms and sleep in hallways.

“We know that to attract responsible, experienced, supportive homeowners, the city and other government partners need to increase loan amounts to fund repairs, replenish reserves and (pay) all bankruptcy obligations,” Sewill wrote.

These costs could be borne in part by the limited partners who own some of the buildings at the Housing Trust. But the non-profit organization, which collapsed financially earlier this year, is the sole owner of 12 of the buildings. Then the city would likely have to bear all the costs, possibly with the help of government housing programs.

The report says the $10 million is necessary to ensure sufficient funding for at least four to five months. At this point, more than half of the properties are expected to be taken out of receivership and taken over by other not-for-profit general partners.

But the remaining buildings, generally the oldest and most expensive to maintain, could run monthly deficits as high as $700,000.

Beckloff has approved the release of six properties to be acquired by PATH Ventures and one by LA Family Housing, both non-profit organizations that provide homeless services and develop and operate housing. A further seven are expected to be released in late fall once permanent funding can be secured to replace the building loans used for construction or refurbishment.

However, these buildings are the most financially profitable in the portfolio. They have been built or remodeled in recent years and still have limited partners who bear part of the cost.

Dissatisfaction with Adams had grown since his provisional appointment in April. City officials, including Mayor Karen Bass, slammed him earlier this month after the property management company he hires sent eviction notices to hundreds of rent-arrearing tenants. The terms of his appointment prohibit him from terminating a tenant for non-payment. Adams said he did not approve the eviction notices and sent out letters withdrawing them.

The city’s confidence in Adams further soured when it learned that he had agreed to pay 15% interest on loans for costs he estimated were already up to $1.7 million for collateral was included. The city claims that the terms of his appointment put a 10% cap on any loans.

During the June 15 hearing, Assistant District Attorney Alia Haddad Beckloff said the city was in talks with a possible replacement.

Sewill’s report elaborated on the city’s concerns.

Aside from being unable to secure adequate funding, she wrote, “he has not hired, and perhaps more importantly, has, sufficient staff to secure and operate the properties and make the necessary repairs.” he failed to submit the court-ordered reporting and accounting.” City and other authorities require.”

Adams, she wrote, has made insufficient progress on “resolving major code violations,” including repairing the fire/life safety systems, fixing plumbing issues in communal toilets, and restoring units that were broken for minor code violations were called for rehabilitation. ”

Adams told the Los Angeles Times that he will respond to the city’s report in court next week. He also cited Judge Beckloff’s support.

A review of Adams’ filing by the Times, published shortly after his appointment last month, found that at some properties where Adams served as liquidator, tenants were at risk of eviction, owners lost their homes and several judges concluded that he had overstated his fees by six-figure amounts. Additionally, in two cases comparable in size and scope to the Skid Row Housing Trust case, Adams left years before they were resolved, omitting key facts about his involvement in the court filings.

Feldstein Soto told The Times that she chose Adams based on a recommendation and did not conduct an extensive background check.

To replace Adams, the report said the city conducted an extensive search that identified Kevin Singer, the founder and president of Receiver Specialists, as the top candidate.

According to the report, Singer served as an insolvency practitioner for 23 years and previously owned a property management company that managed 75 buildings.

He received strong support from the mayor and city attorney of San Francisco for his performance as the liquidator of 11 properties owned by a woman who became known as the city’s cruelest landlady.

“Mr. “Singer and his staff developed a very methodical, straightforward and realistic numbers-based approach to bankruptcy administration and prepared and submitted a six-month projection budget for city consideration,” Sewill said.

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Citing a slew of issues and a loss of confidence, the LA prosecutor is now recommending that the person she was hired by a judge a few months ago remove control of the troubled Skid Row Housing Trust.

In a memo Friday, prosecutor Hydee Feldstein Soto and the city’s housing director expressed their support for asking the judge to replace Mark Adams as bankruptcy trustee — and for the city to loan up to $10 million to fix housing problems permit.

To motivate the judge to replace him, the city would offer the soft loan on the condition that Adams be replaced. City council members are expected to take up the recommendation at a budget committee meeting on Monday. Committee chairman Bob Blumenfield told LAist Friday afternoon that he supports the move to replace Adams.

“All of these red flags evolve from red flags to flashing red lights that say, ‘Be careful,'” Blumenfield said.

“We really must do everything we can to prevent a human tragedy from getting worse and also look after the public money. Because that’s very much at stake,” he added.

WHAT IS A RECEIVER?

• A liquidator is someone hired by a court to take control of a property and fix problems. You essentially become the landlord, under the supervision of a judge and the city. According to the city attorney, the Skid Row Housing Trust case is by far the largest court-ordered receivership in LA history.

Back in late March, Feldstein Soto had petitioned a court to give Adams control of the trust’s 29 properties, which house about 1,500 formerly homeless people – after the non-profit housing trust fell apart financially and many of its homes were deemed healthy and safe .

But in a shift in confidence, Feldstein Soto, along with LA Housing Department head Ann Sewill, recommended replacing Adams with Receivership Specialists’ Kevin Singer for “some or all” of the properties.

“Disappointing” progress

“[Adams’] “The progress made in addressing serious violations of the regulations, such as B. repairing the fire/life safety systems, fixing plumbing issues in communal toilets, and restoring units cited by HACLA for minor sanitization violations were disappointing,” the memo to the city council said .

“In addition, the property management only placed an order a few weeks ago [Adams] sent out three-day eviction notices to hundreds of tenants, which were then withdrawn, but which should never have been sent out.”

Feldstein Soto previously told the Los Angeles Times that the 451 eviction notices were illegal under the city’s Tenant Protection Act and violated his promise not to evict anyone for rent arrears alone.

The memo also said Adams did not hire enough staff to repair and secure the properties, and he failed to provide the court-ordered reporting and accounting that the city and other agencies require.

“It turned out that the bankruptcy administration could be better served with another bankruptcy administrator,” it says.

Adams did not respond to LAist’s request for comment Friday morning, and a spokesman for the prosecutor said they had not commented.

When he recommended Singer as Adams’ replacement, officials wrote that Singer had worked on nearly 500 bankruptcy administrations nationwide — more than Adams’ approximately 300 — and that San Francisco officials praised his work in the city, which included “a very challenging one.” Bankruptcy Administration’ in the Tenderloin owned district.

When asked if Singer received more prosecution reviews than Adams, Blumenfield said he and others asked and “we were assured there were significantly more reviews.”

What happens next

The motion to extend city loans up to $10 million — assuming the court replaces Adams — will now go to the City Council Budget Committee for a decision. This meeting is scheduled for Monday at 2 p.m

“One way or another, the public is being held accountable,” Blumenfield told LAist, saying he believes if the Housing Trust implodes, many of the residents will end up back on the streets with no other choice.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We need to be smart about this and get involved as early as possible to prevent a major catastrophe, which will also end up costing us a lot of money – and that’s why we are.” committing your own tax money.”

As part of the loan, Blumenfield said, the city will impose stricter requirements on the new recipient to bring the city up to speed — and consequences if it doesn’t.

Blumenfield said the city cannot require this at this time because receivership is a court-controlled process and the city is not a lender.

Ultimately, it will be up to LA Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff to decide whether to replace Adams. His support for Adams may be waning — last week, during a tense downtown LA court hearing, Beckloff removed seven properties from receivership and questioned Adams’ efforts to improve the properties. Still, the judge expressed his support for Adams, saying he felt he was the right person for the job.

It’s unclear the status of prosecutors’ investigation into Adams’ performance, which it revealed last week. Her spokesman declined to comment on Friday.

The key to the future, Blumenfield said, is for the units to be renovated quickly so that they become financially stable. Currently, hundreds of the housing units are ineligible for federal housing credits because the city has said they violate quality of life standards, including when it comes to issues like fire safety.

Past Issues

The move comes after wrongful eviction orders and reports by the LA Times and LAist of several judges finding problems with his previous receiverships, including significant overcharges for his company’s services.

LAist also reported earlier this month that a company Adams founded to serve as a bankruptcy trustee has been banned by the state from doing business since 2015 for unpaid taxes. Adams told us he was looking into the matter and said his current business is in good shape.

SCHEDULE FOR COMPLETE TOWNHOUSE TRUST

• Skid Row Housing Trust is a non-profit organization founded in the late 1980s and is the largest provider of subsidized housing in Skid Row, LA’s premier community for homeless people. The organization develops, manages and operates 29 buildings in downtown LA that house people who were formerly homeless. In recent years, the nonprofit has completed construction of about 250 housing units with funding from Measure HHH, the $1.2 billion housing bond approved by voters in 2016.

  • Feb. 7: The nonprofit’s interim CEO warns of an impending financial meltdown and briefed employees on efforts to persuade other housing providers to take over the 29 buildings, according to the LA Times. The trust has been in financial crisis for years, posting annual deficits of up to $14 million.
  • March 30: Los Angeles District Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto files court documents, citing uncertain conditions, asking a judge to appoint Mark Adams as court-appointed receiver to administer the nonprofit’s properties.
  • April 5: According to the Times, three people are found dead in a Skid Row Housing Trust building of suspected drug overdoses.
  • April 7: Judge Mitchell Beckloff of the Los Angeles Superior Court approves the prosecutor’s motion and appoints Adams as the bankruptcy trustee. “We see the train falling off the cliff here,” a lawyer in Feldstein Soto’s office told the judge about the urgency of the situation.
  • June 2: Unlawful eviction notices were sent to 451 of the trust’s tenants by a property management company hired by Adams, according to the prosecutor. The following Monday, Adams retracted the communications, saying they had been sent in error.
  • June 6: City Attorney staff send Adams a letter saying they are “shocked and deeply disappointed” by the eviction notices. In an interview with the Times, Feldstein cited Soto’s other problems, such as a lack of 24-hour security, and said she was losing confidence in Adams.
  • June 15: Beckloff relieves Adams of control of seven of the properties after being at times frustrated with Adams’ reactions. Adams said the move could affect its ability to raise much-needed working capital.
  • June 23: The city attorney who originally recommended Adams for the job joins a senior city housing official in recommending replacing Adams and giving the city a loan of up to $10 million to redevelop the trust properties to grant. The decision to replace Adams rests with the judge, and the credit decision now rests with the city council.

City officials said the stakes are high at the housing foundation. For decades it has been one of the largest providers of affordable housing for the homeless in LA. But the buildings have fallen into disrepair in recent years as the non-profit owner went bankrupt and faced financial ruin, the memo and Times reporting said.

On April 5, just before Adams took over, three people were found dead in a Skid Row Housing Trust building of suspected drug overdoses.

When Feldstein Soto announced in late March that she would seek receivership, which gave Adams control of the properties, she said the 1,500 people who live in the buildings are extremely vulnerable.

“[These] are among our most marginalized and vulnerable populations,” Feldstein Soto told reporters. “If they lose their homes, there is little doubt that they will spread to our streets.”

LAist reporter David Wagner contributed to this story.

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Pittsburgh Pirates (26-27, 2nd in NL Central) vs. San Francisco Giants (28-26, 3rd in NL West)

San Francisco; Tuesday, 9:45 p.m. EDT

PITCHING PROBABIES: Pirates: Johan Oviedo (3-4, 4.70 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 48 strikeouts); Giants: John Brebbia (2-0, 3.68 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)

BOTTOM LINE: The Pittsburgh Pirates will be looking to break their three-game hiatus in a match against the San Francisco Giants.

San Francisco is 16-11 at home and 28-26 overall. The Giants rank fifth in the majors with 76 total home runs, averaging 1.4 per game.

Pittsburgh are 26-27 overall and 14-14 away. The Pirates’ pitchers have a collective ERA of 4.07, which ranks third in the Netherlands.

Tuesday’s duel is the second meeting of these teams this season.

TOP PERFORMER: Michael Conforto has three doubles, 11 homers and 27 RBI for the Giants. Mitch Haniger is 15 of 41 with four doubles, two homers and 10 RBI in his last 10 games.

Bryan Reynolds has 16 doubles, three triples, seven homers and 33 RBI for the Pirates. Jack Suwinski is 10 of 36 with two doubles, four homers and eight RBI in his last 10 games.

LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 7-3, .270 batting average, 2.66 ERA, outperformed opponents by 28 runs

Pirates: 3-7, .251 batting average, 5.71 ERA, 13 runs surpassed

INJURIES: Giants: Thairo Estrada: 10-day IL (wrist), Ross Stripling: 15-day IL (back), Joey Bart: 10-day IL (groin), Heliot Ramos: 60-day IL (oblique ), Joc Pederson: 10-day IL (hand), Roberto Perez: 60-day IL (shoulder), Luke Jackson: 60-day IL (elbow), Thomas Szapucki: 60-day IL (left arm) , Luis Gonzalez: 60-day IL (back)

Pirates: Carlos Santana: Day-to-Day (Lumbar), Vince Velasquez: 15-Day IL (Elbow), Wil Crowe: 60-Day IL (Shoulder), Ji-Man Choi: 60-Day IL (Achilles ), Oneil Cruz: 60-day IL (ankle), JT Brubaker: 60-day IL (elbow), Jarlin Garcia: 60-day IL (arm), Max Kranick: 60-day IL (elbow)

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