City Controller: City of Los Angeles Running out of Money for Homeless Housing

Today, the Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti was exposed by the City Controller as a FRAUD and a LIAR! Let the record show, the “answer” to Garcetti’s recall, never fully served on the committee, IS A FRAUD AND A LIE! #recallgarcetti

(Source: Scathing new audit finds deep operational failures at L.A.’s top homeless outreach agency)

Wed, 9am- Controller Says L.A.'s Homeless Outreach Falls Short, Calls for Fix

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

Event Date: Wednesday, August 28

Contact: Ian Thompson, 310-490-8595 (cell) | 213-978-7200 (office)

ian.thompson@lacity.org

Press Conference: Wed, 9am

Controller Says L.A.’s Homeless Outreach is Falling Short, Calls for Data-Driven Fix

LOS ANGELES — On Wednesday morning, L.A. Controller Ron Galperin will unveil a report on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA)outreach program, highlighting its limitations and discussing how the City of Los Angeles can work with LAHSA to overcome them by implementing a new, effective and proactive outreach strategy with clear goals and measurable results. 

LAHSA is a City-County joint powers authority responsible for connecting the region’s 56,000 homeless people with housing and services. Over the past two years, the City and County have poured $54 million into LAHSA’s outreach efforts, yet homelessness in the City spiked 16 percent this year alone. 

Galperin’s report finds that LAHSA is falling short on nearly all of its City outreach goals, including placing those experiencing homelessness into permanent housing, connecting them with shelter or bridge housing, and getting treatment for those with mental health and substance abuse issues. He also points out that LAHSA’s City and County outreach goals aren’t consistent and City outreach is too heavily focused on reacting to complaints about homeless encampments instead of proactive services. 

At the press conference, Galperin will address these issues and recommend a new data-driven and proactive outreach strategy to create a statistically-driven performance management system, HomeSTAT, to inform LAHSA’s outreach goals. HomeSTAT could fundamentally reshape LAHSA’s outreach program by using real-time data on homelessness to evaluate performance and make informed decisions about resource allocation. 

When: Wednesday, August 28, 9am

Where: City Hall East, 200 N. Main St., Suite 350B (third floor, Controller’s Media Room)

Who:  L.A. Controller Ron Galperin

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Ian Thompson Communications Director 213.978.7200 (office) | 310.490.8595 (cell) lacontroller.org | ian.thompson@lacity.org

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Los Angeles Daily News: L.A.’s chief auditor urges transparency over city’s use of Prop. HHH homeless funds

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By PIERCE SINGGIH | psinggih@scng.com | Los Angeles Daily News

Citing the results of the 2019 homeless count, L.A. City Controller Ron Galperin on Wednesday urged leaders to more closely look at what’s happening to available public dollars targeted to combat the problem, which has been cascading across the city.

“Angelenos need to know where their money is going and deserve better results,” Galperin said in a statement reminding the public of his office’s first analysis of Proposition HHH spending in his recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.

Homelessness is up 16% over last year in the city and 12% countywide — and in the San Fernando Valley, the problem is also acute, jumping to 6,772 from 6,621 last year, according to results released last week for the January count. The annual count reported that nearly 59,000 people in L.A. County are now homeless, with 23% of those experiencing homelessness without shelter.

Galperin — the auditor and chief accounting officer for the city — noted L.A. has not been using all of its readily available funds to combat homelessness. Of the $86.4 million available funds provided by the voter-approved bond measure HHH, Galperin’s annual report said Los Angeles used only $4.5 million in the fiscal year 2018.

Furthermore, as of January, according to the City Controller’s office, $362 million in HHH funds were readily available and in total, $34 million has been spent.

With all of these spent funds, no new housing units have actually been built. Rather, the City Controller’s office says the funds have been used for pre-construction or construction.

“It has been two-and-a-half years since L.A. voters approved Measure HHH to spend $1.2 billion to create 10,000 supportive housing units,” Galperin said in a press release last week. “While nobody expected these units to be built overnight, at this moment not one HHH project has been completed. And the average total development cost per unit is nearly $520,000.”

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