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Board approves plan to create county homelessness department, with one abstention
Summary
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to begin creating a county Department of Housing for Health and Services to centralize homelessness services and streamline LAHSA functions. The motion passed 4–0 with Supervisor Holly Mitchell recorded as an abstention after proposing timing and metrics amendments that failed.
Los Angeles County supervisors voted to begin creating a county agency to coordinate homelessness services, adopting a motion to implement key recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Homelessness.
The board approved a plan authored by Supervisor Lindsay Horvath that directs county staff to align the Department of Health Services’ Housing for Health program and the CEO’s Homeless Initiative as the foundation for a new Department of Housing for Health and Services. The motion passed 4–0 with Supervisor Holly Mitchell recorded as an abstention.
Horvath told the board that the county’s homelessness system is “siloed and accountability is diffuse,” and urged a centralized, data-driven entity to connect investments to measurable outcomes. Sarah Mann, director of Housing for Health, described Housing for Health’s model: integrated clinical and social services, a “whatever it takes, for as long as it takes” approach, case…
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