Last week, the L.A. City Council voted to study the feasibility of forming its own, separate bureaucracy to spend money on homelessness.
This follows L.A. County’s decision to form its own, separate bureaucracy to spend money on homelessness.
It’s uncertain where this leaves the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a joint city-county bureaucracy to spend money on homelessness.
These bureaucracies are known as a “Continuum of Care,” entities that may apply for federal grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. At the moment, LAHSA is the lead agency for the Los Angeles Continuum of Care (CoC). LAHSA is supposed to coordinate all the aid for homelessness that comes from agencies, businesses, community groups and government.
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