As the three-day Los Angeles regional homeless count launches on Tuesday, county leaders announced the new Homeless Services and Housing Department.
The new department was formed after the L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted to strip the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority of more than $300 million in funding last year.
The LAHSA agency had come under fire when a federal court review faulted it for losing track of billions in taxpayer funds while failing to address the region’s homelessness crisis. An audit revealed that LAHSA could not account for tens of millions of dollars…