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external affairs at the Los Angeles Housing Department said in a statement. \u201cWe are hopeful this will happen very soon.\u201d<\/p>\nCity Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto has quietly expressed her concerns about the budget, particularly the $106 million allocated to the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, which routinely sues the city. It is not the first time that Soto has put up a fight against the LAFLA, as she audited the organization in June of last year. A meeting was held to discuss the audit the following August, but there are no further reported updates.<\/p>\n
Barbara J. Schultz is the Director of Housing Justice at LAFLA. She states that LAFLA and their subcontractors have worked three months without funding, and layoffs and furloughs are beginning to occur.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still don\u2019t have an executed contract, we haven\u2019t quite finalized those terms. We are very concerned about the potential reductions in service,\u201d Schultz said in an interview with Los Angeles. \u201cI have several subcontractors who are quite small organizations and their primary source of funding is this contract. So for them, they can\u2019t hold on much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n
That said, Schultz added that some progress has been made.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last week, we\u2019ve gotten some movement. We got two different contract versions from the city attorney\u2019s office, and we did have a helpful meeting,\u201d Schultz said.<\/p>\n
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A motion filed by Councilmember Ysabel Jurado questioned why the $177 million in emergency funding was sitting unused as eviction threats loomed over affected Los Angeles County residents. Jurado reaffirmed that Stay Housed L.A. has continued to offer legal aid services during the wait, but will have to make changes if the funding does not reach them soon.<\/p>\n
There is currently no vote scheduled to address Jurado\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n
Feldstein Soto has had a wildly unpopular time in office, and now sits in third place for re-election. Unfortunately, due to her time coming to a close, the contract to fund the legal aid organizations may be put off further than originally anticipated.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day we go without a contract, meaning that we have no hope of getting paid for the work we are doing, another contractor is going to feel like they can\u2019t do this any longer,\u201d Schultz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In mid-March of this year, the Los Angeles City Council voted on a $177 million budget to continue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2076,1336,16932,48,52,51,47,50,144000,49,13825,80054,16933,11563],"class_list":["post-352441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-budget","tag-housing-crisis","tag-hydee-feldstein-soto","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-housing-authority","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mayor-karen-bass","tag-nithya-raman","tag-stay-housed-la","tag-ysabel-jurado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352441","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=352441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}