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Housing & Homelessness
The “Community Opportunity to Purchase Act” would give organizations committed to keeping rents low the first chance to make an offer on buildings coming up for sale.
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A growing number of people — many of them older and homeless — are freezing to death during winter.
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Additionally, less than a fifth of people who did enter interim housing were able to secure permanent housing, which the audit said is “woefully inadequate.”
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The city needs to rezone for more than a quarter-million new homes. Elected leaders decided to block new housing in single-family neighborhoods.
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In recent years, county officials have run into resistance from cities that are reluctant to host shelters.
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The city estimates 7,500 homes are being illegally rented through online booking platforms. Here’s how they plan to crack down before the Olympics.
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California and federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself ”at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices.”
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Many California cities offer their homeless residents one-way bus tickets to other places.
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With a stay now granted by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, work on any new housing will be put on ice until April.
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Before her time at L.A.’s homeless services agency, Lilly Simmering oversaw a county government department in Orange County that greenlit millions of taxpayer dollars to a nonprofit now embroiled in a fraud scandal.
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An audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found late payments and inadequate monitoring of contracts.
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L.A. City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez wants to pull funding from LAHSA. Big question: Would the city do a better job overseeing homeless services?
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There are some 1,300 jobs in the homeless services sector in L.A. County that have remained unfilled.
