Howard E. Scott offers a lesson in the changing nature of fatherhood
From War to Lowrider By Terelle Jerricks, Managing Editor
Howard “Scotty” Scott Jr. at his San Pedro music studio. Photo by Steven Guzman
[See Scotty, p. 4]
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committed to build 5,303 housing units, this falls far short of the estimated need, even with some 1400 units slated for completion in 2019-20. In the Los Angeles harbor area, where some 420 new housing units are now being built and several more in planning, only three units will be for low-income renters. This is because Buscaino believes “we already have too much low income housing in San Pedro, according to one source close to government who explained Buscaino objected to the 20 percent low-income mandate for the Los Angeles County courthouse project proposed on 6th Street in San Pedro. During the five years since the Tiny Homes battle was fought in the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council District, Buscaino has been scrambling to create the impression he is doing something about the
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The June 4 release of the Los Angeles Homeless Services 2019 point-in-time homeless count the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County is up 12 percent, an increase surpassed by the City of Los Angeles’s 16 percent rise. But the shocker comes far down the report, on page 27, where the data is listed by city council district and shows the 15th Council District with the third-highest rise in homeless; it’s up by whopping 45 percent since 2018. Clearly whatever Councilman Joe Buscaino has or hasn’t done isn’t working. This growth in homelessness occurred even as Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reports it was
finding housing for 21,631 people. The report states that the continued rise in homelessness derives from economic factors that are “driving” the problem. Wages have not kept pace with rising rents — a worker making minimum wage would have to work 79 hours a week to afford a one-bedroom apartment; creating more than 721,000 households that are severely rentburdened with one-third of them spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent. Then there’s the housing shortage; the report estimates LA County would need 526,946 new affordable units to meet the demand of low-income renters. Bottom line, even as the city and county have increased their efforts, helping those 21,631 people off the streets and passing two bond measures to pay for housing and services the afflicted population has grown. With 72 percent of Proposition HHH funds already
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“I was raised primarily by my mother,” said Howard Scott Jr., who’s called “Scotty” by most people who know him best. “My father was a rolling stone. He basically assisted us financially. My mother was my primary care provider.” Scotty is the founder of the City Lights Gateway Foundation, the CEO of Arch1 Entertainment — a multimedia artist development company — and the son and namesake of Howard Scott Sr., known by millions worldwide as a founding member of the multiracial, multiple-genre (rock, jazz, Latin, rhythm-and-blues, reggae) funk band, War. Scotty was speaking from a place of reflection. “My mother kept us grounded in the sense that it was my father that was in War — and not us that was in War and that we should stand on our own accomplishments.” Scotty said he didn’t understand why his father was away so often — at least, not until he grew older. “If you don’t have a man around, you’re likely to pick up the traits that women have,” he explained. “Because my father wasn’t
[See Homeless, p. 2]
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