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How Los Angeles Is Getting Scorched by Its Homeless Problem
By Ana Kasparian, RealClearInvestigationsMarch 19, 2025 VENICE, Calif. – Francesca Padilla was awakened by the sound of ...
City of LA aims to create homeless oversight bureau to keep any eye on the money
Our work that has already been happening on this (issue) — thanks to funding from philanthropy — has actually yielded results ...
Los Angeles cannot track money spent on homeless programs, independent audit finds
An independent audit commissioned by a federal judge raised serious concerns about how Los Angeles city and county are ...
Supervisors push to shift homeless funding from LAHSA to new LA County department
If approved, the new department would absorb most of the roughly $350 million LAHSA receives from the county — and part of ...
Santa Monica Daily Press5d
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 ...
Court-ordered audit finds major flaws in L.A.’s homeless services
An audit of homeless services provided by Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found them disjointed ...
A court-ordered audit finds Los Angeles homeless programs have poor oversight
Auditors could not quantify the amount of money spent to establish beds and provide related homeless supportive services ...
LAist12d
5 takeaways from LA’s troubling new homelessness spending audit
Among the largest are the county of L.A., the city of L.A. and the joint city-county agency known as the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, or LAHSA. The auditors found that data collection ...
How Entertainment Workers Are Finding New Careers in Homeless Services — With a Little Help From Keanu Reeves
LAURA Academy is training entertainment workers and others as case managers for L.A. homeless services organizations, with ...
Whittier Daily News13d
Rates of death among the homeless in Los Angeles County are leveling off
The number of homeless people dying in Los Angeles County has leveled off ... we are still facing the worst overdose crisis in history,” said Dr. Gary Tsai, director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse ...
Pasadena Star-News13d
A court-ordered audit finds Los Angeles homeless programs have poor oversight
Further, auditors said, the city and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA ... officials to rapidly address the homelessness crisis, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.