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City committee presses LAHSA, HACLA and LAHD for clearer roles in CES lease-up process
Summary
The committee reviewed a Chief Legislative Analyst report on the coordinated entry system (CES), approved recommendations to improve lease-up timelines and asked HACLA, LAHSA and LAHD to increase coordination and reporting. The committee approved the CLA report as amended.
A Los Angeles City Council Housing and Homelessness Committee meeting on May 21 considered a Chief Legislative Analyst report on the Coordinated Entry System (CES) and voted to approve the report with amendments that create clearer timelines, require kickoff meetings and ask HACLA to examine whether income and unit inspection timelines can be extended.
The CLA presentation said the report "covers a general overview of the PSH lease up process and identifies areas of concerns in the process that caused delay in move ins and general bottleneck in the system," and recommended a single point of accountability within the city to oversee lease-up from start to finish, recommending the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) as that lead.
The report described roles now played by LAHSA, LAHD, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), the county and service providers; it said CES matches people from a community queue fed by HMIS records and that the system has moved from one-on-one matching to batch matching and from tools…
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