With billions spent on Los Angeles County homeless services and the results not coming fast enough, the board of supervisors will vote Tuesday on a plan to consolidate homeless services into one county department.
“Our services are strewn across something like 14 different departments; plus you have LAHSA, plus you have the City of Los Angeles, plus you have all the cities in the ecosystem of our county that are providing services. It’s impossible to track. The accountability that people want to see from LAHSA isn’t happening, and I think that it’s a structural problem,” said L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath.
Horvath says the problem is backed up by numerous audits that have found wasted funds and holes in the tracking of services provided. Horvath says people are cycling in and out of programs meant to keep them off the streets…