L.A. city and county remain at odds over who will run key homeless systems
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Set us as preferred Los Angeles County will conduct future homeless counts and apply for federal grants on behalf of the region’s homeless services providers, taking over two functions from the beleaguered Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.But a vote Tuesday approving that transition sidestepped a battle between the county and City of Los Angeles over other federally-mandated duties long performed by LAHSA.No new date was set to decide whether the city or county, or some collaboration between the two, will run the database that records contacts with homeless people and the system that matches people to housing.The county faced no opposition to its bid for the point-in-time count and the regional application, but the city submitted competing bids for the database and matching system.After an aborted attempt last week to shift all of LAHSA’s federal functions to the county, the Los Angeles Continuum of Care, an amorphous decision-making body consisting of anyone in the county involved in homeless services, narrowed its agenda Tuesday to the homeless count and federal grant application.
Both those items were approved.California The numbers from this year’s point-in-time homelessness count delivered a major blow to Bass, who is seeking reelection and has made the issue a central part of her agenda.The dismemberment of LAHSA began last year when the Board of Supervisors voted to take control of more than $300 million in local sales taxes previously managed by LAHSA and created the county Department of Homeless Services and Housing.The Trump administration touched off the shift of LAHSA’s federal mandates when it suspended LAHSA in June, citing reports of mismanagement and possible fraud.
As the city and county fight to take over LAHSA’s duties, an obscure decision-making body called the Continuum of Care has been p...