L.A. city and county fend off a court battle over homeless services

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Set us as preferred Staving off a battle over control of homeless services, Los Angeles County has agreed in principle to let the city of Los Angeles control who gets placed in city shelters and housing.The agreement, approved by the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday after City Council approval Friday, settled a long-standing complaint from the city that it is cut out of information about homeless people within its borders and is forced to accept residents from outside the city into housing it has created.The agreement also will give the city access to the homelessness database.Both systems has been run by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county joint powers agency in the process of being dismantled.It also cleared the way for the county to take over operation of the matching system and the homelessness database managed by LAHSA.

California Los Angeles County has agreed to take over the annual homeless count and federal grant application duties from the struggling Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.However, the county and city of Los Angeles continue to spar over which will manage other homeless programs.Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced the agreement Tuesday as “a historic opportunity for the city of Los Angeles to be completely in control of building a system that can end street homelessness.”“For the first time, the city of Los Angeles will finally be able to house people from our own streets, not from other cities,” Bass said.

“City taxpayers think they were paying to house people from the city of L.A.without realizing that they were paying to house people from cities all over the county.”The evisceration of the joint powers agency, created more than 30 years ago to settle a dispute between the city and county over federal homelessness dollars, began last year when the su...