{"id":279167,"date":"2026-04-21T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:31:07","slug":"embattled-l-a-homeless-services-agency-to-lay-off-284-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/279167\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled L.A. homeless services agency to lay off 284 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority said Monday that it plans to lay off 284 employees, primarily citing a decision by the county to pull funds and set up its own homeless services department.<\/p>\n

LAHSA, a joint city-county agency established in 1993, receives money from the city of L.A., the county, the state and the federal government to administer homeless services, including shelters<\/a> and outreach, across the county.<\/p>\n

But last year, following years of criticism that LAHSA lacked proper oversight and financial control<\/a>, the county Board of Supervisors voted to pull funds and programs from the authority and move them into an internal department<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That transition takes effect July 1, the start of the coming fiscal year and the day LAHSA said the 284 layoffs will take effect.<\/p>\n

In an open letter Monday, LAHSA employees urged local officials to save jobs and warned that the coming layoffs, coupled with other cuts<\/a> to homeless services, \u201cwill mean more encampments, more preventable deaths in the streets, and more individuals and families with no other option but to live in unsafe and unacceptable conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Workers to be laid off as of now include 216 represented by SEIU Local 721 and 68 non-union staff. <\/p>\n

How many will ultimately become unemployed is unclear.<\/p>\n

Because LAHSA is a joint city-county agency, it currently has employees funded by the city and those funded by the county.<\/p>\n

Jesus Ruiz, a spokesman for the county Chief Executive Office, said the county remains committed to finding jobs for departing, county-funded LAHSA workers and is currently working with LAHSA to identify how many of the 284 employees fit that definition.<\/p>\n

As of now, however, the soon-to-be laid off LAHSA employees represented by SEIU Local 721 \u201care not currently scheduled to transition into county employment,\u201d Mike Long, a spokesman for the local, said in an email.<\/p>\n

The city of Los Angeles is also debating moving at least some programs out of LAHSA, but has yet to make a decision. <\/p>\n

Depending on what budget the city approves for next fiscal year, LAHSA said it could retain some laid off workers.<\/p>\n

Long said the union is working with the city and county to \u201csave these vital positions.\u201d<\/p>\n

LAHSA interim chief executive Gita O\u2019Neill thanked LAHSA employees for \u201ctheir unwavering dedication and hard work\u201d and credited them with being the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind a recent reduction in unsheltered homelessness<\/a>, which although it remains sky-high has fallen 14% since 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority said Monday that it plans to lay off 284 employees, primarily citing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1409,166,120359,828,60317,6228,120360,120358,48,52,51,6390,7036,47,50,49,113524,4576,114935,111605,4455],"class_list":["post-279167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-city","tag-county","tag-effect-july","tag-employee","tag-fiscal-year","tag-fund","tag-joint-city-county-agency","tag-l-a-homeless-service-agency","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lahsa","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mike-long","tag-program","tag-seiu-local","tag-spokesman","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279167","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=279167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}