LA homeless nonprofit CEO milks taxpayers for – Latest News
As if we needed more proof that (some) homeless nonprofits take egregious benefit of LA taxpayers.
Here it’s:
Per media experiences, Carol Adelkoff, the CEO of 1736 Family Crisis Center, collected more than $1.6 million in pay over the previous two years. While luxuriating in Hawaii.
Where she’s apparently lived for more than decade, year-round, in a 3,700-square-foot home — whereas ostensibly working a community-based nonprofit in LA and OC.
Per media experiences, Carol Adelkoff, the CEO of 1736 Family Crisis Center, collected more than $1.6 million in pay over the previous two years. While luxuriating in Hawaii. Facebook/1736 Family Crisis Center
The phrase we would like right here is shameless.
While Adelkoff lived massive within the land of mai tais and tropical breezes, the addicts of Skid Row simply saved spiraling.
Obvious query: Where’s the oversight from City Hall? (Hold the laughter, please.)
Mayor Karen Bass, City Council Housing and Homeless Committee Chairwoman Nithya Raman and the remaining of the council need to get a grip on what taxpayers are literally getting for the billions of {dollars} town pours into the homelessness disaster.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attends “Smokey Robinson & Gladys Knight: Just the Two of Us” on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, on Saturday, July 25, 2026. Her look got here as Sunset Boulevard had simply reopened following more than a week of repairs after a main water predominant break in West Hollywood. (Copyright © 2026 BACKGRID, Inc.) Melanie Miller / BACKGRID
LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman speaks at a press convention in Los Angeles, California, Friday, July 24, 2026. (Jonathan Alcorn) for CA Post
The reply the involves thoughts? Bupkis. Per the newest homeless depend by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, homelessness in LA climbed by 3.4% — regardless of the obscene quantity of money town dumps on the issue.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has suspended funding to LAHSA — which LA merrily continues to fund –– amid allegations of fraud and financial mismanagement. The homeless authority has made a determined plea in courtroom to reclaim the frozen federal funds, The California Post reported this week.
The total mess is an embarrassment as massive as Skid Row, which consumes an astonishing 50 blocks of Los Angeles.
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Yet off within the land of hula, mango and poke, Adelkoff gorges on taxpayer {dollars}.
About 94% of the $15 million a 12 months her nonprofit collects flows from taxpayers, per the group’s tax filings.
It ought to go with out saying: All however a tiny fraction of these tens of millions ought to go towards ending homelessness, relatively than personally enriching the CEO.
It ought to go with out saying: All however a tiny fraction of these tens of millions ought to go towards ending homelessness, relatively than personally enriching the CEO. Andy Johnstone for CA Post
Yes, nonprofit leaders ought to draw a truthful wage. But homeless-services govt is a humble job –– or ought to be.
It ought to be about serving others, not serving oneself.
It ought to be about pulling others out of distress, not dwelling in luxurious oneself.
And it ought to be about guiding homeless providers on the ground right here in California, not phoning it in from throughout an ocean.
Even if Adelkoff works 70 hours a week, as she claims, the maths — $1.6 million for her, distress for the 45,000 Angelenos dwelling on the streets — doesn’t work.
Nor does it matter whether or not or not her huge payout was juiced by unused trip time.
Either method, it smacks of the homeless-industrial-complex racket: Nonprofits have an incentive to entrench, relatively than cut back, homelessness — all the higher to keep the tax-funded largesse flowing.
It’s well beyond time for Bass, Raman and the council to clean up the messes they’ve allowed and created: each on the streets and within the C-suites of homeless-aid teams.
