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The L.A. Homeless Services Authority announced Monday that the agency will narrow its focus and lay off 284 employees at the end of June.<\/p>\n
Why now: The changes at the public agency, known as LAHSA, come after the L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted last April<\/a> to withdraw more than $300 million in annual funding for the agency.<\/p>\n The context: LAHSA interim CEO Gita O\u2019Neill called the staffing changes a \u201cnecessary evolution,” according to a news release announcing the move. \u201cBy narrowing our focus to macro-level governance, data management, and securing federal funding, we are stepping into our true role as a strategic architect of the region\u2019s homelessness response system.\u201d In December, a group of LAHSA employees wrote an open letter<\/a> to the Board of Supervisors demanding they \u201censure no County-funded worker is displaced.\u201d<\/p>\n Learn the ins and outs behind L.A.’s housing crisis.<\/p>\n Sign up for Building Your Block, a seven-issue newsletter course from LAist that explains the obstacles around housing development in L.A. and what you can do to make things better.<\/p>\n Hundreds of layoffs: The agency will send layoff notices to the 284 employees on April 30, according to the news release. Another 130 positions that are currently vacant will also be eliminated in the transition. Some of the layoffs may be avoided, a LAHSA spokesperson said in the news release, \u201cdepending on the final details of the City of Los Angeles budget.\u201d<\/p>\n “I want to profoundly thank our staff for their unwavering dedication and hard work serving people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County,” O\u2019Neill said. “Our staff has been the driving force behind the historic reductions in street homelessness we’ve seen over the past two years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: The L.A. Homeless Services Authority announced Monday that the agency will narrow its focus and lay off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4742,17449,969,48,52,51,6390,6113,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-277778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-agency","tag-ceo","tag-homeless","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lahsa","tag-layoffs","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}