Va Lecia Adams Kellum, president and CEO of St. Joseph Center, is appointed executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
The question remains whether the Mayor Karen Bass’ administration can lease enough motel or hotel beds to meaningfully reduce the size of encampments across the city.what the direction of the agency will be, but elected officials said it must move with much more urgency in addressing the crisis.
Adams Kellum is close to Bass and has been working closely in the first weeks of her administration to help coordinate the clearing of encampments in Venice and Hollywood. St. Joseph Center, the Venice nonprofit she has run since 2008, did much of the outreach and work to find hotel rooms for people staying in these encampments for the intermediate period.$5 million from the city to help move people living in a large encampment along Ocean Front Walk in Venice.
That effort has served as a model for what Bass is trying to do now — and Adams Kellum will initially be an advisor to Bass working in City Hall. She will take on her new role at some point in the spring at an annual salary of $430,000, according to LAHSA documents.
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