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Council adopts homelessness performance metrics, adds prevention indicator and oversight steps
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council on Aug. 26 approved a package of performance measures for homelessness spending, added a prevention indicator and directed the city housing office to incorporate the measures into a restructured contract framework with the region’s homeless services administrator.
The Los Angeles City Council on Aug. 26 voted to adopt a set of performance metrics to evaluate city homelessness investments, adding a new prevention indicator and directing staff to incorporate the measures into a restructured contract framework with the regional homeless-services administrator.
Councilmember Rodríguez, who introduced the motion, said the city cannot rely on data that “has not been transparent” and that the council must know the source of information used to measure results. “Mi preocupación es que si vamos a tener una conversación sobre las métricas de resultados… tenemos que saber cuál es la fuente de los datos,” Rodríguez said during the discussion.
The approved measures—described in council materials as 35 performance indicators—are intended to track provider outcomes and inform whether city dollars are producing expected results, staff said.…
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