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How LA homeless agency’s retreat is a sign of sanity

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CA Post Editorial Board. (2026, September 18). How LA homeless agency’s retreat is a sign of sanity. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/09/17/opinion/la-homeless-agencys-retreat-is-a-sign-of-sanity/

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The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) has partially withdrawn from its duties related to managing homelessness, including conducting the point-in-time count and tracking systems. This move comes after federal investigations into alleged mismanagement at LAHSA, which has been criticized for poor financial management and lack of transparency. The article argues that this retreat is a step towards accountability and better use of taxpayer funds, as LAHSA was seen as ineffective and entitled, operating from luxury facilities while serving those in extreme need.
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Los Angeles’ Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) is ceasing its involvement in several key functions it has managed for decades due to mounting pressure from federal authorities and local officials. The LA Continuum of Care Board voted recently, allowing LAHSA to withdraw from leading the annual application for federal homelessness funding, managing the Homeless Management Information System, conducting the point-in-time count, and overseeing the coordinated-entry system. This decision follows accusations that LAHSA mishandled taxpayer funds and lacked transparency, with former HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launching a public attack on LA’s homeless system in August 2023. Nearly $241 million in federal funding for fiscal year 2026 is at stake, creating uncertainty around the agency's eligibility to manage future homelessness services. The city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County are now vying to take over these responsibilities, with the county aiming for all four roles and the city seeking at least two.

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California LAHSA Los Angeles The LAHSA Commission the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

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LAHSA is so radioactive that Mayor Karen Bass announced she would step down from its commission on Sept. 8 –– one day after a California Post editorial noted that she’d appointed herself (and others) to the panel and did indeed have oversight responsibility.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-18
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How LA homeless agency’s retreat is a sign of sanity · assertive framing

Claims (17 extracted, 0 hedged)

No one’s sad to see the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority partially withdraw from the fight against regional homelessness. asserted
Authority → ’ → homelessness
The LAHSA Commission this week retreated from key duties it’s long been entrusted with, including the point-in-time count of homeless people and two systems that track homeless people, services and referrals. asserted
that → retreat → people
For this group, fewer responsibilities for public-service provision means fewer opportunities to squander taxpayers’ money. asserted
responsibilities → mean → money
Besides, why should a basket-case organization, under federal investigation for alleged mismanagement, compete to retain control of LA’s federally funded homelessness programs? asserted
organization → allege → programs
Los Angeles needs change, not failure as usual. asserted
Angeles → need → change
LAHSA has long been blasted for poor financial management; failure to demonstrate results; missing records; lack of transparency, lax oversight and shoddy spending controls; alleged conflicts of interest; and on it goes. asserted
it → blast → interest
The agency maintains headquarters in the AON Tower in LA –– a posh building with amenities like a helipad, car service and a cold plunge. asserted
agency → maintain → helipad
How does that look for a group whose mission is (supposed to be) assisting people who dwell in squalid tents? asserted
who → look → tents
Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters Skid Row in downtown LA comprises 50 square blocks of squalor. asserted
Row → download → squalor
Why keep doing the same things that haven’t worked? asserted
that → keep → things
LA County finally said it’d had enough in 2025, when it voted to pull more than $300 million in funding from LAHSA and take over some of its functions. asserted
it → say → functions
Even the city of LA, almost farcically inept on the issue of homelessness, has cut funding to the troubled agency, though City Hall has not yet managed a long-promised study on alternatives to LAHSA. asserted
Hall → cut → LAHSA
LAHSA is so radioactive that Mayor Karen Bass announced she would step down from its commission on Sept. 8 –– one day after a California Post editorial noted that she’d appointed herself (and others) to the panel and did indeed have oversight responsibility. asserted
she → announce → responsibility
The entire is mess is driven, in part, by a sordid homeless industrial complex. asserted
mess → drive → complex
Public officials hand billions of taxpayer dollars to nonprofits and other agencies to address homelessness. asserted
officials → hand → homelessness
Those groups enrich their own officers while further entrenching homeless, to keep the tax dollars flooding in. asserted
dollars → enrich → homeless
Holding the out-of-touch, scandal-plagued LAHSA accountable is a step toward sanity. asserted
LAHSA → hold → sanity
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