Exclusive | LA blew $60M on homeless fix it housed just three units

Just three out of a promised 2,000 apartments have been used to relocate the homeless in Nithya Raman’s failed $60 million project to get people off the streets.Councilmember Raman, the chair of the Los Angeles City Council’s Housing and Homelessness Committee, introduced the Time Limited Subsidy program back in September as a cheaper alternative to Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe Program — meant to get homeless people into an established residence.Raman’s plan was to lease and move homeless people into 2,000 apartments and subsidize their rent, rather than pay for them to stay in motels or shelters.However, nearly a year after that plan was launched — with $62.6 million in taxpayer funds behind it — only three apartments are occupied.The City Council first approved investing in the subsidy model last September as part of its strategy for complying with a court settlement with the Los Angeles Alliance for Human Rights.Four months later, on January 28, the council approved resources for a redesigned program targeting 2,000 households.The full rollout began March 1.However, only three units had occupants by June 25, according to a July 1 presentation to Raman’s powerful homeless committee — a damning result for a program Raman has campaigned to take citywide if elected Mayor.“One household a month is not a solution,” councilwoman Monica Rodriguez told The Post.

“I would say they’re having issues with the program.It’s not working.

I think that’s what they discovered,” she continued.Rodriguez says the $62.6 million subsidy rollout exposes the same gap between promises and results.“I think the big difference is talk versus action.

[Raman] says a lot of words but doesn’t deliver,” she said.The sluggish rollout follows another homelessness program tied to Raman that The Post revealed was stalled despite millions of dollars in government funding.A $4,011,357 state grant Raman secured to address dangerous encampments along a 19-mile str...