Fury as LA bigwigs suddenly delay stripping hundreds of millions of your cash from failing agency

Los Angeles leaders blew past their own July 1 deadline to begin taking control of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars now managed by the scandal-plagued Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.The missed deadline is the latest setback in the city’s effort to fix a homelessness system battered by audits, scandals and growing public frustration.Created jointly by the city and county in 1993, LAHSA is governed by a commission with half its members appointed by the Los Angeles mayor and the other half by the county’s five supervisors.In April, Mayor Karen Bass warned that years of reports and studies had produced little action and urged City Hall to move quickly as Los Angeles County prepared to leave LAHSA.Bass’s directive laid out a 30-, 45-, 60- and 90-day timeline for the city to begin overhauling how LA responds to homelessness.The plan called for reviewing LAHSA, restructuring its governance and exploring whether the city should assume responsibility for many of the agency’s programs.But months later, one of the first major steps has stalled.In April, the City Council’s Homelessness and Housing Committee voted to hire an outside consultant to analyze how Los Angeles could begin taking over homelessness programs now run by LAHSA.The committee is chaired by Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is challenging Bass in next year’s mayoral race.A July 1 deadline was given but still no one has been hired for the roughly $450,000 consultant role, so the study never started.Instead, the latest recommendation pushes completion of the work to December 2027, nearly a year and a half later.The delay comes as pressure on LAHSA continues to mount.As previously reported by The Post, the Trump administration suspended nearly $200 million in federal homelessness funding flowing through LAHSA while HUD’s inspector general investigates allegations of financial mismanagement, conflicts of interest and poor contract oversight.Federal officials say LAHSA failed to verify...