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…