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Council votes to separate city’s funding relationship with LAHSA, citing audit findings and oversight failures
Summary
The City Council voted unanimously to move forward on a motion that calls for ending funding arrangements that the sponsor said lacked accountability at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and to explore bringing services in‑house. The motion cites a county controller audit about contract oversight.
The Los Angeles City Council on March 25 approved a motion calling for a fundamental change in the city’s relationship with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), with Councilmember Rodriguez urging the council to “call an end to funding the failure.” The motion passed on a 15‑0 roll call.
Councilmember Rodriguez said the city’s funding of LAHSA has resulted in tens of millions of dollars distributed to service providers “without scope of work, without contracts,” a conclusion the sponsor tied to a county controller audit released earlier. Rodriguez said a local $2 million audit commissioned by the city corroborated gaps in LAHSA’s financial controls and called for direct city oversight of homelessness work.
“This monstrosity has been funded with taxpayer dollars from multiple sources. And it continues to fail to perform,” Councilmember Rodriguez said, arguing the city should consider bringing some homelessness services management in‑house so that public money is tied to documented scopes of work and measurable results.
The motion’s sponsor asked colleagues for an aye vote; the council voted 15 ayes on the item. The meeting record shows the motion directs staff to pursue options for oversight changes and closer city management of service delivery previously administered through LAHSA. The county is simultaneously reviewing related structures, the sponsor said.
Ending: The council approved the motion to pursue separation and increased oversight of homelessness program funding currently channeled through LAHSA; the action directs staff to return with implementation details and does not itself reallocate specific funding in the meeting record.
