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LA leaders want to take apart homeless services agency, calling it ‘broken’
As homelessness spending increased, a court-ordered audit found the agency was having trouble tracking the money it spent.
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LA County supervisors to vote on pulling over $300 million out of homeless services agency
The proposal comes after a pair of scathing audits about the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, known as LAHSA. If approved, the annual spend of taxpayer money would instead be directly overseen by the ...
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 ...
Opponents of Karen Bass should focus on the next election, not an expensive recall
For those determined to remove the mayor, a wiser plan might be to focus on the coming regularly scheduled mayoral election.
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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 ...
California Dems are skittish about freezing rents in Los Angeles
Post-Covid concerns about small landlords are continuing to drive the conversation around renter aid policies.
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OpEd: Rent Non-Payment A Dangerous Notion
A resolution proposed by Supervisor Lindsey Horvath would provide a blanket, unconditional affirmative defense to eviction for non-payment of rent for an ...
Supervisors reject LA County CEO’s hiring freeze, but her plan will be back
The board of supervisors reject a proposed hiring freeze, yet the LA County CEO says spending in 2026 budget is fraught with ...
The L.A. fire recovery effort: Colliding egos, ambitions and financing
Promises to unify and work together to rebuild a wide swath of the Los Angeles region after January’s fires have given way to ...
Protesters, elected officials take action to halt flow of toxic debris to local landfills
Some people are up in arms over potentially hazardous wildfire debris being sent to local landfills that typically don't handle high levels of toxic chemicals.