Homeless agency has posh digs while ‘shoppers’ live – Latest News
Talk about your ivory tower.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority — LA’s central homelessness agency — has headquarters within the AON Center on Wilshire Boulevard, The California Post revealed this week.
Among the tower’s options: helicopter rides to LAX, Maybach car service, and a luxe gymnasium with an infrared sauna and cold plunge.
LAHSA, the embattled agency beneath scrutiny for money mismanagement, operates from a swanky downtown skyscraper boasting a Maybach, non-public helipad, valet parking and a tenant fitness heart with a cold plunge and infrared sauna. Aon Center
Wow. So while LAHSA’s homeless “clients” languish in squalid tents, the agency’s brass luxuriate in a skyscraper that caters to the ultra-rich.
Perhaps they figured no one would care. How entitled; how shameless; how conceited.
What’s more, we don’t but know how many taxpayer {dollars} have been squandered on this unseemly indulgence: LAHSA thus far received’t say, and The Post has filed a Public Records Act request to get solutions.
Clearly, that is absurd to the purpose of farce.
Closed storefronts and homeless people are seen alongside a part of Van Nuys Boulevard. David Buchan for Ca Post
Karen Bass, Nithya Raman & Co. need to stop shoveling money to businesses and nonprofits that prioritize their own leaders’ perks over decreasing homelessness — and begin holding these teams to account for abusing taxpayers.
It’s not like the newest abuse is a one-off.
There’s Carol Adelkoff, the CEO of 1736 Family Crisis Center in LA, who collected more than $1.6 million in pay over the previous two years … from the consolation of Hawaii.
There’s Albert Senella, CEO of Tarzana Treatment Centers, who collected $2.36 million in wage final yr and calls home a palatial $3.7 million, six-bedroom, eight-bathroom unfold in Simi Valley.
These (and different) homeless agency “leaders” appear to see no irony of their own ultra-luxury life.
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They are content material to gorge on taxpayer {dollars}, yr after yr and decade after decade –– while homelessness will get worse.
In truth, LA businesses and nonprofits have incentives to entrench homelessness, to keep the taxpayer largesse flowing: More homeless people means more demand for tax {dollars}. Ad nauseam.
The result’s a homeless industrial advanced that helps everybody however these degenerating on the streets.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority –– LA’s central homelessness agency –– has headquarters within the AON Center on Wilshire Boulevard, The California Post revealed this week. Google Maps
Bass and the 15-member City Council have to be properly conscious of these dynamics by now. Yet they perpetuate them. Why?
Bass and the council have long recognized that LAHSA is a flawed group; LA County all however shunned the agency in 2025, and the federal authorities is probing it for alleged financial mismanagement.
Yet town continues to fork over tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to LAHSA, which will get 73% of its funding from metropolis taxpayers –– even after after Bass & Co. vowed but failed to review alternate options. City Hall can’t even take a child step away from an agency it is aware of is failing. Why?
Revelations in regards to the luxe workplace space comes as LAHSA comes beneath mounting criticism over its handling of public money. Aon Center
Meanwhile, nutty Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez and 9 of his council colleagues simply voted to cede more than a dozen parks and public areas to homeless chaos within the Hollywood and Silver Lake areas. Here ya go!
It’s as clear because the tents on the streets: LA is shifting within the fallacious direction on homelessness.
“Housing first” has been a pricey catastrophe: Placing addicts in accommodations for some stretch of time, with no sobriety or remedy necessities, does nothing however deplete public coffers and enrich nonprofit/agency enablers.
LA has an astounding 45,194 homeless residents, per the newest official rely — 3.4% larger than final yr, regardless of billions of tax {dollars} poured on the issue.
But a minimum of LAHSA’s bureaucrats can get pleasure from their ivory tower.
One has to surprise: Do the group’s Tenth-floor places of work have a view of Skid Row and its 50 blocks of squalor?
