https://www.lassennews.com/hud-cuts-off-fraud-filled-los-angeles-homelessness-funding
Following the HUD Office of Inspector General opening an investigation, Secretary Scott Turner today announced the immediate suspension of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the lead agency for Los Angeles’ homelessness response.
HUD has uncovered evidence of LAHSA’s repeated false statements and its irresponsible actions and failures, including its lack of financial management, internal controls and safeguards against conflicts of interest, which pose a threat to the public, HUD’s mission, and the stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
The Los Angeles Continuum of Care, led by LAHSA, has received nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the last five years. Despite receiving more federal homelessness funding than any other jurisdiction in the nation, Los Angeles remains the epicenter of the nation’s drug-fueled homelessness crisis.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, HUD will fund results, not corrupt failure or the homeless industrial complex,” said Turner. “Year after year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to LAHSA with little accountability.
LAHSA has been run with zero accountability, when cornered and they have to report, it’s usually outdated and a convoluted Mess. Its about time.
The Trump administration is cutting off federal funding to Los Angeles’ lead homelessness agency after federal officials said they uncovered a pattern of fraud, false statements, financial mismanagement, and conflicts of interest inside one of the nation’s largest government-funded homelessness machines.
Now the question for Seattle and King County is obvious: Could this be the beginning of the end for Homeless Inc. here, too?
This was how the Democrats raised money to stay in power, gut it all out and clean up the mess.