online<\/a> last week, inviting qualified organizations to take on one or more of LAHSA\u2019s current administrative roles.<\/p>\nLAHSA\u2019s governing commission voted unanimously Tuesday to not apply, effectively forfeiting the federal roles that comprise most of its remaining responsibilities.<\/p>\n
The city of L.A. and L.A. County are both applying, according to LAHSA. <\/p>\n
\u201cWith both the City and County preparing their own applications, competing against our founding partners would only fracture regional collaboration during an already complex time,\u201d the LAHSA Commission and the agency’s leadership said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision reflects the shared judgment of LAHSA\u2019s Commission and executive leadership,\u201d the statement continued. <\/p>\n
Federal roles<\/p>\n
LAHSA will forfeit the following federal homelessness roles: <\/p>\n
1. Coordinating and submitting annual federal homeless assistance funding applications to HUD on behalf of the entire L.A. region \u2014 about $240 million in the coming year.<\/p>\n
2. Planning, executing and reporting the region\u2019s annual point-in-time homeless count.<\/p>\n
3. Operating and administering a HUD-mandated database that tracks who’s being served and whether they’re moving into housing.<\/p>\n
4. Managing and operating a HUD-mandated system to match unhoused people to available housing and services based on need.<\/p>\n
How we got here<\/p>\n
After Carter paused LAHSA\u2019s suspension, the federal housing agency appealed the decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, the appeals court issued a temporary stay on Carter’s order.<\/p>\n
LAHSA said that ruling created more uncertainty about whether the agency was eligible to apply for the federal roles it has held for the past three decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cStepping aside now supports alignment with the direction the City and County are heading with their applications, and focuses public resources where they belong: on the people who depend on the rehousing system every day,\u201d the LAHSA statement said. <\/p>\n
LAHSA is a joint powers authority between the city and county, created three decades ago to manage the region\u2019s response to homelessness. <\/p>\n
City and county officials are collectively responsible for LAHSA, which has administered federal, state, county and city homelessness funding across the region. <\/p>\n
Citing LAHSA\u2019s management problems, L.A. County pulled more than $300 million annual homelessness funding from the agency starting this year, choosing instead to administer the funds through a new county homelessness department. <\/p>\n
The city of L.A. is considering a similar move away from LAHSA. Mayor Karen Bass and her election rival Councilmember Nithya Raman both say the city needs its own independent homeless system. <\/p>\n
In the current budget year, 73% of LAHSA\u2019s nearly $500 million budget comes from the city of L.A., 20% from the federal government and 4% from L.A. County.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next?\u00a0<\/p>\n
LAHSA said it will continue to fulfill its ongoing federal responsibilities \u201cuntil those duties transition to a new entity or entities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The agency has agreements with the city of L.A. to manage programs and contracts through June 30, 2027. <\/p>\n
The county\u2019s Department of Homeless Services and Housing is applying to take over all four of LAHSA\u2019s federal responsibilities, according to county officials. The city of L.A. is currently applying for at least two of those roles, putting the city and county in competition with each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoving forward, another entity will be leading the [Continuum of Care], which I believe should be the county, given our ability to most effectively administer contracts for our region,\u201d Horvath said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Other organizations have also expressed interest. Better Angels, a homelessness nonprofit led by former L.A. mayoral candidate Adam Miller, contacted the court seeking to apply. <\/p>\n
Applicants looking to take over LAHSA\u2019s federal roles have until Sept. 25 to submit applications, but had to communicate their intent to apply by Sept. 15.<\/p>\n
The applicants selected by L.A.\u2019s regional Continuum of Care Board will have to be reviewed by HUD and the federal court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles region\u2019s lead homelessness agency is effectively forfeiting the federal administrative roles it has held for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36997,6644,94686,9500,8161,48,52,51,6390,47,50,49,1695],"class_list":["post-465301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-city-of-l-a","tag-homeless-count","tag-homelessness-spending","tag-hud","tag-l-a-county","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lahsa","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465301","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=465301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}