A federal judge is ordering the city of Los Angeles to prove that it provided more than 2,600 rental subsidies for unhoused people, evidence that L.A. is complying with long-standing agreements to create more shelter.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter made the order at the end of a hearing held to determine whether the city is fulfilling its legal obligations in a lawsuit with the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, a downtown business group that sued the city.

Los Angeles is required to create 6,000 new beds for unhoused people under a 2020 deal known as the Roadmap agreement. The city has been counting rental subsidies in compliance reports submitted to the court.

But Carter said in an amended order issued Thursday that he had “serious concerns about the accuracy” of the numbers.

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