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Given the billion-dollar budget of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, the department that oversees services for unhoused Angelenos, you might assume their staff is robust.The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles is so understaffed that their very purpose, helping the unhoused, has become a difficult promise to keep.
The reasons behind the shortage depend on who you ask. But topping the list are problems not foreign to other industries, like the limitations of only offering in-person positions and the issues that arise when the work hits a bottleneck and piles up, only further undercutting the system itself. Some of HACLA’s clients are working to find housing using Section 8 vouchers, which augment monthly rent. But Carlos VanNatter, HACLA’s director of Section 8, told Ethan that the department, which has jobs to fill, isn’t equipped to let people telecommute — a big problem in a pandemic world.“Candidates have a lot of options right now,” VanNatter said. “We’ve had situations where they don’t show up for interviews, or they go through the process and get an offer and don’t accept.
HACLA also works with a vast network of nonprofits, each of which struggle with their own internal problems. Otis Gossett, an unhoused man in downtown, of last year that he felt certain he’d only be waiting a few more weeks to move into a new apartment with his Section 8 voucher.
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