LA Homeless Services spent $513mil but could not account for one dime

Trump Cuts Ties with Los Angeles Homeless Agency Over Obvious Fraud

For years now, Americans have watched billions of their hard-earned tax dollars vanish into government “homelessness programs” that somehow never manage to solve homelessness. Progressive city leaders announce bold spending initiatives. Nonprofits line up at the trough.

Bureaucracies balloon. And the tent cities? They just keep growing. The Trump administration’s fraud task force, led by Vice President JD Vance, is finally exposing how deep the rot actually runs.

What they’re uncovering should infuriate every American who pays taxes. From the Midwest to the West Coast, the task force is finding a disturbing pattern: blue-state governments treating federal dollars like Monopoly money — or worse, like a personal piggy bank for well-connected insiders. But no city illustrates the scandal quite like Los Angeles.

From Fox News:

A top Trump agency is cutting off funding to the Los Angeles agency responsible for coordinating billions in homelessness spending after accusing it of “obvious fraud,” “wanton mismanagement” and repeated failures to safeguard taxpayer dollars, Fox News Digital has learned.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which is a member of the White House fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance, is immediately suspending the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) federal funding while HUD’s inspector general investigates potential offenses by the agency and its leadership.

The City Controller’s Office found that LAHSA failed to spend $513 million in public funds during fiscal year 2024. The excuse? Not enough staff and outdated technology. So they couldn’t spend the money. And when they did manage to spend it, they couldn’t tell anyone where it went. Remarkable.

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