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Searing audit finds city of LA has failed to properly track billions in homelessness spending
Many of the problems identified were at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the public agency known as LAHSA.
LAHSA is a project of gross incompetence. Taxpayers must fight back.
The city’s homelessness response is broken—not because of a lack of funding, but because of a government that refuses to be ...
Santa Monica Daily Press4d
LA County Supervisor proposes consolidating homeless services under new department
Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath on Thursday proposed creating a new county department to consolidate ...
CBS News7d
Housing Authority official says LA could see rise in homelessness after Section 8 changes
An official with Los Angeles' Housing Authority said the city could see more people struggling with homelessness after the agency stopped accepting new applications for Section 8 — a measure it ...
Long Beach Post6d
How Long Beach plans to shrink its biggest, longest-standing homeless encampment, the LA River
The state recently awarded Long Beach $11 million to help pay for its most ambitious encampment resolution plan to date. Most ...
Los Angeles spends billions on homelessness with little accountability
The LAO’s report says the January 2024 point-in-time count found 187,000 people who are homeless in California, an all-time high for the state, up 24 percent from January 2019. Two-thirds were ...
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Court finds why LA's homelessness spending fails to produce results
The City of Los Angeles is home to 45,252 homeless individuals, while Los Angeles County is home to 75,518 homeless individuals, according to the latest point-in-time homelessness count from early ...
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Los Angeles spends billions on homelessness with little accountability
It’s working perfectly. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, responded to a scathing new report assessing L.A.’s homelessness spending by saying, “This audit validates our work to ...