Local officials are warning that more than 14,500 L.A. County formerly homeless households in subsidized, permanent housing could be forced back onto the streets or into shelters over the next year, mostly because of a loss of federal funding.
The predicted displacement would wipe away the slight reduction in the local homeless population since 2023 and is setting off a scramble by nonprofits and local government officials to try to blunt the potential effects.
“This is not a normal moment and we cannot treat it like it’s a normal moment,” said Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who chairs the council’s housing and homelessness committee. “There is a potential for the entire homeless services system that we have built up here to fall apart.”…