Tuesday’s vote could mean the creation of a powerful new entity that allows Los Angeles County leaders to “take the first step to reforming how homeless systems are governed.”
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger once again urged her peers to reject the failing status quo and to develop a cohesive way to address homelessness at the Board of Supervisors meeting when they gather on Tuesday, May 3.
“The region is in crisis, but the system serving persons experiencing homelessness is not set up to operate in crisis mode,” according to the blue-ribbon report released in late March. Highlighting the county’s 56% increase in homelessness-related deaths in 2021 over the prior year, Barger said Monday that the statistics are “a painful reminder that we must change what we are doing, or quite frankly – what we’re not doing – to help the most vulnerable and indigent people that are living on our streets.”
Commissioners spent hours in public meetings to shape recommendations they hope can create momentum for collective action. “We cannot sit idly by with 2,000 deaths in 12 months. We have to do more,” she said. As a result, commissioners recommended that the county create a central entity “with responsible charge, accountability and authority over homelessness,” according to the report.
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