Homeless Agency is sent to solid numbers. But under fire

Of the supporters, Los Angeles Angeles Service Authority tried to beat its line.

Last summer, known but well-sponsored agency announced that not homosexuals had already been successful Los Angeles County after years of increased years. The consequences of the city of Los Angeles was more encouraging, and the number of “unclean” is not homes – street people – crossing over 10%.

Top Lahsa managers promised to show progress in the face of a problem with people to help people in the coming months, where the latest homeworks are released.

But instead of drawing comfort, the County-County Agency is under fire from many paths – despite drawn out.

On Tuesday, the LA County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote in the distribution system of more than $ 300 million and hundreds of staff from the household entrance. Authorities in a city-bound city recently first look at the same step.

At that time, the Judan judge has already increased Lahsa. In the ear last week, the American Regional Judge David O. Carter criticized Kalahsa’s unaltreated numbers, was an attack on its finance and even criticized its offices.

“I will never go into Kulahsa Office and be released from office,” Carter said, looking at the allocation of homeless services.

The Chief Executive Officer of LAHSA, Va Lecia Adams Kellom, sent Carter a letter last week’s spelling agency to work. Carther responded by accusing him by doing “empty” promises.

Adams Kellum, who took Lahsa two years ago, said the day of hearing that his agency worked to improve its data collection and improve their beds. He decides to increase the number of homeless people from the street and temporary housegubes at 32% in 2023-24, he said.

“I took a job aware that La Luka and a housing plan as important changes,” said the discussion. “Surely we have improved in building that change.”

The LASA has become a brief piercing fund, drawing criticism from City leaders, County Managers and other public officials who claim to be poor and effective.

In 2022, the blue commission recommended that the County officials have created their homeless agency and “postpone” the activities of LAVASA. The program to use the number of impontible people, “difficult,” with many confused organizations with their role, the authors wrote.

For many County SuperSising people that allow drags, some in City Hall expressed new concerns about future separation. Members of the Council say Let’s hear a little from the region that the most wanted services will be disrupted or reduced.

“When they take their money, they will take the best people in Luza again,” said the Council Bob Blumenfield. “I mean, they will take the functions of this organization, taking all the people who know it actually knows it, and they left us what is left.”

The city of city Matt Syabo, a senior city budget, has further approached.

“The anxiety is, the organization can live if it loses more than half of its workers and is almost part of its support?” He said. “Or will it go out?”

LAHSA Shakuup supporters claimed that they were working to arrive at this moment for years. They point to the BLUE Ribbon Commission work and a very critical audit line as reasons to take a deciding action.

One report, which is generated by the County Auditor year last year, concluded that the LAX funding processes and written contracts prevented LAVAs to obtain millions of dollars to provide its contractors as the 2017-2018 financial year. (Lahsa officials argue that full payment was not appropriate until 2027.)

Also testing, demand by Carter, found that Lahsa has no sufficient monitoring financially to ensure that its contractors delivered paid services. This has left the agency to be at risk of spending and fraud, audit.

La County Supervisor Lindse Horvath, who leads the pursuit agency of the County Agency has already been more emerging tax deductions in November paying for housing and homes. Direct oversight is the County to ensure that these investors have been spent well, he said.

“Instead of propaganda on Tuesday, no LAHSA said,” Horvath said, representing the western San Fernando Valley. “Rebated back to Lahsa, and it means that the district is now administering the authority in this vote. Central capital.

“Many homelessness here I don’t know what happened here,” says Colbby Johnson, because of his presence in the Kwid Row in the city of Los Angeles.

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Supervisor Hilda Solis provided the same view, meaning that County Agency provide homeless services, such as the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Health, provide more effective, carefully providing.

Shakaup supporters said Luhasa would still make home year count and deal with the Homeless Management Information Program, the Database tracking services provided by the homeless. It can also continue to use emergency facilities.

Lahsa was established in 1993 as a responsible person working on the house and the city, as part of an effort to improve communication and homelessness. The agency has a board with 10 members separately separate between the city and county.

County provides a budget of 40% of $ 875 million, with one 35% of the city and most rested from the government and the organization, on the agency website.

That budget increased following the passing of CEECEAL H, 2017 County Deal Tax generated for hundreds of millions of dollars each year by reaching homes, housing navigation and other social services. The agency took hundreds of additional employees and is now managing more than 800 contracts.

Even those currencies, the number of homeless people live up to 75,000, after five years of growing, according to Kulahsa’s calculations since last year.

“I believe they grow as soon as possible,” La County Supervisor Kathryn Barger has been pressing withdrawal costs from Luzsa. “It was not well thought that it was to grow, hiring these many workers, they have those many contracts.”

The Mayor of Ren Bass, which won the Office in 2022 by the promise of combating this problem, said it announced that the homeless function needed major changes, applies within the safe, the system program created the transmission of the angels and the perpetrators.

At one time, Bass has been the most prominent population of speaking with the County Holyness Department, which says it will disrupt the success of the past two years.

In Jan 31, over two years in the program, inside it moved about 3,900 people into temporary houses, such as hotels and Moteles, according to LaSa Figure. To that perfect thing, about 900 finally did it were eternal households, and some 1,400 had left the program, it would be back home, to prison or die.

“I want the County to process the unintended effects of doing this,” Bass said. “I think it will stop the forward movement of getting people on the street.”

The Mayor of Ren Bass attends the media conference in order to open LOS Angeles Aartity’s 2025 Great Los Angeles the Holy Goodses Faghens Feuty in February February.

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The lawyer Elizabeth Mitchell, which is representative for the Alliance for Human Rights, which puts the city to the disadvantage of the disagreements, they shared the Luhosa. But he was offensive for a district proposal, comparing the movement of the desk chairs on the titanic.

He criticized the Department of Psychiatiles, which the fact that helps fractions of those in need of its services. And it was revealed to doubt that County officials would successfully tear the obstacles between their various departments.

“You take money away from one bad organization … and send it to another bad organization,” said Mitchell, forced labor agreements in Carter Court.

Once the authorities acknowledges on Tuesday, County officials will start building a new department for its budget that will exceed $ 1 billion. The new agency will draw the approximately 76 workers from the County High office, which supports the path, the same step similar to safety.

This new organization will take up to 245 employees from the County Department of Health of Healths, Health Comprehensive Health Departments.

About 468 employees from LAVA has also relocated to the New County Association, so all completed Transfer July 1, 2026, according to Horvath’s Office.

Two people stand outside the tent during Los Angeles Homes Authority 2025 Great Los Angeles Come home.

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County officials will have to discuss changes made by the International Union Union 721 service staff, symbolizing three of the four staff of Kaluka. They will also provide a line of service delivery from other many structures in the new department.

The County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, its region from Koreatown to Carson, worried about Track Turn.

“Before we discuss the Dollian-dollar transfer, we need to make sure this is right, and that everyone involved …” said Mitchell.

Mitchell expressed dissatisfaction within the latest days of the County work itself was homeless. In parts of his district, residents wait for years to find home employees from Paway Home to work, he said.

The LA CITY COURMANMANIBLEMAN, head, head to the Council’s home committee, does not recognize how the new Agency Agency Agency will remedy problems that printed rubbing the poor.

“Until we are able to do those connected, I’m always trying that big changes will result in human lives in the ground,” he said.

CouncilberMember Monica Rodriguez, who had wanted the house to build a home for home, did not have such qualities, and he said La’ll “will not be left arrested in the sinking tran.”

Barger, County Manager, said he had no intention to change the course. He described the hearing of the court last week, when Carter resided against LAHA because of their financial criteria, as a “column.”

“Nothing can change my mind,” she said in the conversation. Nothing. “

The Times Staff WRIER DOUG SMITH had contributed to this report.