The King Edward — Local services in Los Angeles

If you’re considering The King Edward Apartments in downtown LA, run in the opposite direction. This building is an absolute living hell—a chaotic, lawless environment that is completely neglected by management and unfit for human habitation.

The tenants they accept are severely struggling with mental health issues, but instead of providing a structured, supportive environment, management lets them run wild, creating an unsafe, unsanitary disaster. The conditions inside are horrifying: • Filthy shared bathrooms with clogged toilets, human feces, and used drug paraphernalia left behind. • Dog feces in the hallways, leaks, broken electrical systems, roaches, and graffiti-covered walls. • Constant screaming, fighting, smashing of windows and doors, and people urinating inside. • Naked individuals wandering the building, unchecked hoarding, and unrestricted loitering.

What makes this worse is that management allows this to continue despite the clear policies and laws that could be enforced. If someone is hoarding, give them a notice and clean it up if they don’t, If people are loitering, remove them. But instead, the Healthy Housing Foundation turns a blind eye, allowing this nightmare to continue unchecked.

This is not housing—this is a disgraceful, inhumane environment that worsens people’s mental health rather than helping them. The Healthy Housing Foundation should be ashamed to attach its name to this horrific property. Instead of providing a safe and stable home, they are forcing people to live in third-world conditions with no rules, regulations, or basic human decency.

There needs to be a serious wake-up call to the deplorable conditions at The King Edward Apartments....

I went to visit an associate who really does make the best of this place. Many of the rooms and they are single room occupancy dwellings have their doors open because its an older building and has no ac.the tenants don't do much with the spaces keep in mind these people live below the poverty line. The building in general is clean and the person I was visiting had manGed to create a comfortable sitting area and separate from that a sleeping area with a twin size bed with a really good mattress. He used a thin fish tank and room screen to create the illusion of two room the ceiling is incredibly high so his storage space goes up though he also has a good size closet with storage space on top. He also has a 55 foot tv that you can see clearly from everywhere in tve apt. Bathrooms are communal as are kitchens but he has a air fever and a microwave on top of a medium size mini fridge . There is something very new York about his set up and in his place you would have no idea this was low income housing and I say all this to say with a little determination and imagination these...

The King Eddie is owned by AHF and managed by AHF. They put a lot of money into renovation and this Is a very old building. My room was meant only for temporary housing until I found a place. Overall I definitely found this property to be cleaner and management more on top of issues in the building than other Sro downtown. Jaime is an amazing dedicated worker And keeps the property immaculate! If you need short term temporary housing under two years it could easily work. I don’t know personally that I could stay in a shared bathroom environment for longer...