LA homeless agency’s retreat is a sign of sanity – Latest News
Bye, Felicia.
No one’s unhappy to see the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority partially withdraw from the battle in opposition to regional homelessness.
The LAHSA Commission this week retreated from key duties it’s long been entrusted with, together with the point-in-time rely of homeless people and two systems that monitor homeless people, providers and referrals.
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Local business proprietor John Alle arms out flyers to the homeless offering to pay for journey home in MacArthur Park, California, Friday, July 24, 2026. David Buchan for CA Post
Good.
For this group, fewer tasks for public-service provision means fewer alternatives to squander taxpayers’ money.Besides, why ought to a basket-case group, below federal investigation for alleged mismanagement, compete to retain control of LA’s federally funded homelessness applications?
Los Angeles wants change, not failure as standard.
Kudos to the Trump administration for imposing a measure of accountability on the behemoth, ultimately.
LAHSA has long been blasted for poor financial management; failure to display outcomes; lacking data; lack of transparency, lax oversight and shoddy spending controls; alleged conflicts of curiosity; and on it goes.
Los Angeles wants change, not failure as standard. CHRIS TORRES/EPA/Shutterstock
And then there’s the entitlement.
The company maintains headquarters within the AON Tower in LA –– a posh building with facilities like a helipad, car service and a cold plunge.
How does that look for a group whose mission is (speculated to be) helping people who dwell in squalid tents?
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While bureaucrats perch in luxurious, LA’s homeless disaster grows, regardless of billions of {dollars} routed to homelessness every year, on a loop.
By the agency’s own rely, the quantity of homeless people up to now yr jumped 3.4% in LA, and 1.2% countywide.
Skid Row in downtown LA contains 50 sq. blocks of squalor.
Skid Row in downtown LA contains 50 sq. blocks of squalor. AFP by way of Getty Images
Why keep doing the identical issues that haven’t labored?
LA County lastly stated it’d had enough in 2025, when it voted to drag more than $300 million in funding from LAHSA and take over some of its features.
Even the town of LA, nearly farcically inept on the problem of homelessness, has cut funding to the troubled company, although City Hall has not but managed a long-promised research on alternate options to LAHSA.
LAHSA is so radioactive that Mayor Karen Bass introduced she would step down from its commission on Sept. 8 –– someday after a California Post editorial famous that she’d appointed herself (and others) to the panel and did certainly have oversight accountability.
The total is mess is pushed, partly, by a sordid homeless industrial advanced.
Public officers hand billions of taxpayer {dollars} to nonprofits and different businesses to deal with homelessness. Those teams enrich their own officers whereas additional entrenching homeless, to keep the tax {dollars} flooding in. Repeat on a loop.
Holding the out-of-touch, scandal-plagued LAHSA accountable is a step towards sanity.
So yes: Bye.
