U.S. Agencies Pitch In to House Some Riot Victims : Relief: The Resolution Trust Corp. and Department of Housing and Urban Development have tagged more than 30 properties for the program.

The Resolution Trust Corp. and another federal agency have given or loaned more than 30 houses and apartment buildings to the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach to provide housing, at least temporarily, for families whose homes were damaged or destroyed in April’s riots.

Though officials still aren’t sure how many people were displaced from their homes, they have begun moving some families into the units provided by the RTC and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The RTC, charged with liquidating failed savings and loans, conveyed four apartment buildings, five single-family homes and a duplex in southern Los Angeles to the Los Angeles Housing Authority on Wednesday. It also gave the agency temporary use of 18 vacant units in two apartment complexes that are in the process of being sold to private buyers.

In addition, the RTC turned over a 19-unit apartment building to the housing authority in Long Beach.

The houses and the vacancies in the apartment buildings will provide 49 units for the two housing authorities.

HUD, meantime, has leased about 20 single-family homes to the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, charging the city $1 a month apiece. So far, six families have moved in, according to James Gelletich, housing authority assistant director. Countywide, HUD has also allocated special rent subsidies for 600 apartment units.

The RTC is required by law to sell thrift properties for as high a price as possible to lessen the taxpayer burden for S&L; failures. But if a property costs more to maintain and market than it will earn the agency in a private sale, the RTC can donate it to an affordable housing program.

“These properties have value, but we wanted to make some effort to help the communities,” said Felisa Neuringer, an RTC spokeswoman.

Talks had been underway with the RTC to acquire some of their properties before the riots, Gelletich said, since the housing agency already had a waiting list of more than 50,000 families looking for low-income housing.

“This just kind of accelerated the discussions,” Gelletich said.