'The employees of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority should not make so little that they qualify for homeless services themselves,' Heidi Marston wrote in a Medium post announcing her resignation.
The executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority resigned Monday, citing low pay to the agency's employees as a major reason for her resignation., Heidi Marston said when she became executive director of LAHSA, some of the organization's employees earned as little as $33,119 a year, or about $2,760 a month before taxes. She noted that by federal government standards, that salary is well into the"very low income" category.
She says she increased the minimum pay at LAHSA so no one would make less than $50,000 a year, raising the salaries of 196 of its lowest-compensated employees. But the raise came at the expensive of the organization's 10 highest-paid employees, whose compensation was frozen. Jennifer Hark Dietz, CEO of People Assisting The Homeless, which contracts with the city of Los Angeles to provide services to people experiencing homelessness, lamented Marston's decision to resign.
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