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Mayoral candidates spent nearly two hours discussing their plans to address the region’s homelessness crisis. The mayoral primary is scheduled for June 7th.A federal court hearing with potentially far-reaching ramifications is scheduled for Thursday morning as a judge weighs whether to seize control of L.
A. city homelessness spending and hand it over to a court-appointed receiver.Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are asking U.S. District Judge David O. Carter to find the city in breach of its obligations to create more shelter andA recent, independent court-ordered audit found major failures by the city in tracking more than $2 billion of homelessness spending.to gather evidence about whether the city violated two major agreements in the lawsuit to create new shelter beds, known as the Roadmap agreement and the L.A. Alliance settlement. A federal court hearing with potentially far-reaching ramifications is scheduled for Thursday morning as a judge weighs whether to seize control of L.A. city homelessness spending and hand it over to a court-appointed receiver.Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are asking U.S. District Judge David O. Carter to find the city in breach of its obligations to create more shelter and. The city objects to the idea, writing in court filings that its due process rights are being violated because it has not been given enough time to respond., which L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and the city attorney pushed back on. Carter has said he would take “drastic” measures if city officials didn’t agree to the audit.found major failures by the city in tracking more than $2 billion of homelessness spending. Much of those funds flowed through the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, otherwise known as LAHSA. Auditors found inconsistent data and a lack of oversight for service providers. L.A. County has since planned to pull more than $300 million out of the agency and into a new county-controlled department. The L.A. City CouncilCarter has continually criticized a lack of transparency and accountability at LAHSA, including for the recent point-in-time homeless count. The agency releasedfor May 27 to gather evidence about whether the city violated two major agreements in the lawsuit to create new shelter beds, known as the Roadmap agreement and the L.A. Alliance settlement.
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