Billions of Dollars in, Homelessness in LA Continues to Rise
TL;DR Los Angeles has poured billions into homelessness programs —Prop HHH, Measure ULA, Inside Safe, LAHSA—and a federal audit found the city “doesn’t know how much it is paying, and for what,” with nearly zero financial oversight anywhere in the chain. Now homelessness in the city is rising again, and the pattern underneath every failure is the same: money moves, programs run, and no one’s job ever depends on whether people actually get off the street. For two years, Mayor Karen Bass had a...
