The three main housing agencies tasked with reducing homelessness in the Los Angeles area failed to spend nearly $150 million in federal grants between 2015 and 2020, according to a new report.
The three main housing agencies tasked with reducing homelessness in the Los Angeles area failed to spend nearly $150 million in federal grants between 2015 and 2020 and the money was returned to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a newspaper report.
LAHSA's chief programs officer, Molly Rysman, blamed the problem on what she called HUD's "rigid'' and "complex'' funding system, which makes it challenging to spend funds quickly or reallocate money that can't be used for its original purpose. The city housing authority told The Times that many landlords are unwilling to rent to homeless people, and also cited the city's tight rental market and high turnover rates.
The Times reported Saturday that LAHSA's spreadsheet breaking down this year's homeless count by each census tract in Los Angeles County showed that there were no homeless people in the northwest quarter of Venice, an area traditionally home to unusually large numbers of homeless.
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