LA City Hall showdown over $1.3B homeless spending debate
Tamara Ceaikovski
“Get me off this merry-go-round from hell.” That’s what Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez told the Housing and Homelessness Committee in a passionate opening speech Wednesday as Los Angeles leaders wrestled with a major question: should the city finally break away from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA)? LA pours more than $1 billion a year into homelessness programs — and the crisis continues to spiral out of control. “We still have a broken and dysfunctional system without a
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