Fentanyl testing devices distributed to LA County community colleges, homeless organizations
The single-use device is small enough to fit in a pocket and contains all of the materials necessary to conduct a fentanyl ...
Santa Monica Daily Press10h
LA County Supervisor proposes consolidating homeless services under new department
Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath on Thursday proposed creating a new county department to consolidate ...
Court-ordered audit finds major flaws in L.A.’s homeless services
An audit of homeless services provided by Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found them disjointed ...
Homeless deaths in L.A. County are leveling off but still nearly seven per day
Just under seven homeless people died on average every day in Los Angeles County through 2023, as the mortality rate leveled ...
A court-ordered audit finds Los Angeles homeless programs have poor oversight
Auditors could not quantify the amount of money spent to establish beds and provide related homeless supportive services ...
Los Angeles spends billions on homelessness with little accountability
The LAO’s report says the January 2024 point-in-time count found 187,000 people who are homeless in California, an all-time ...
Housing Authority official says LA could see rise in homelessness after Section 8 changes
An official with Los Angeles' Housing Authority said the city could see more people struggling with homelessness after the ...
LAist on MSN23h
LA County supervisors to vote on pulling over $300M annual taxpayer dollars out of homeless services agency
The proposal comes after a pair of scathing audits about the L.A. Homeless Services Authority, known as LAHSA. If approved, the money would instead be directly overseen by the county.
Long Beach Post2d
How Long Beach plans to shrink its biggest, longest-standing homeless encampment, the LA River
The state recently awarded Long Beach $11 million to help pay for its most ambitious encampment resolution plan to date. Most ...
Court finds why LA's homelessness spending fails to produce results
A court-ordered assessment of the City of Los Angeles’ $2.3 billion in recent homelessness spending has found officials often ...
Murrieta police seeking owners of pet headstone found in homeless camp
Police are searching for the owners of a pet headstone that was found in the midst of a homeless encampment cleanup in ...
LAist on MSN6d
5 takeaways from LA’s troubling new homelessness spending audit
Here’s what you need to know about the long-awaited findings on what the city has accomplished with billions of dollars in ...