Video transcript
We knew that something was going wrong with the homeless system in Los Angeles. So in May of last year, we had an audit. The court made this audit report public, and it really is damning. It shows the city and LASA are in complete disarray in terms of how they are managing the homeless services in Los Angeles. The auditors had such a difficult time getting information. They couldn't even figure out the total budget. They estimated that the amount of services that they were able to really review was about $2.3 billion. There's more, but they can't find it. They would ask about the city of Los Angeles budget and who they contract with, and all of those pointed to LASA, the Homelessness Coordinator for the region. The city has no real way to determine how much money they spend on homelessness services. And LASA has no way of holding a lot of these non-profit. They contract where accountable. Sometimes LASA pays for services without even contract. And these contracts aren't even detailed in terms of what the service was provided and for how many people. They have really poor financial oversight, and at the end of the day, they can't determine whether or not the services are being provided. If they're being provided more than once and billed more than once, the city is paying for empty beds. When people are going homeless on the streets, it really is a problem.
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