LA City Councilman Bob Blumenfield wants the city to directly provide homeless services, saying the regional system isn’t working.
As the Los Angeles region struggles to get its arms around how to house the tens of thousands of people living on the streets, L.A. city leaders on Thursday, Sept. 22 returned to a long-running debate over how homeless services should be overseen.
Los Angeles City Councilman Bob Blumenfield, who represents District 3 in west San Fernando Valley, said the city should to bow out of the regional system led by LAHSA, and provide its own city-based homeless services. L.A. Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who represents District 4 stretching from Silver Lake and the Hollywood Hills to Sherman Oaks and Encino, disagreed. She cited concerns raised by city analysts that said leaving LAHSA could mean less funding for the city.
That debate is over who decides how services are provided, and where those resources go. The debate has escalated as people wait for months in interim housing, or to get connected to services. Homelessness has climbed double digits in recent years, but the latest homeless countywide count, conducted in February by LAHSA, gave some city leaders a moment to breathe. The count found that homelessness grew from 2020, but by a relatively modest 1.7%, for a total of 41,980 homeless people.
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