Court ordered audit of Calif. Homeless Spending reveals BILLIONS missing with zero accountability

California has been giving out money to NGOs with NO SIGNED CONTRACTS and NO TERMS FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED, straight money laundering

“We knew that something was going wrong with the homeless system in Los Angeles.

— The court made this audit report public, and it really is damning. It shows the city and LAHSA (The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority) are in complete disarray in terms of how they are managing the homeless services in Los Angeles.

The auditors had such a difficult time getting information. They couldn't even figure out the total budget. They estimated that the amount of services that they were able to really review was about $2.3 billion. There's more, but they can't find it.

They would ask about the City of Los Angeles budget and who they contract with, and all of those pointed to LAHSA, the Homelessness Coordinator for the region. The city has no real way to determine how much money they spend on homelessness services.

- LAHSA has no way of holding a lot of these nonprofits they contract with accountable
- Sometimes LAHSA pays for services WITHOUT EVEN A CONTRACT
- In these contracts THERE AREN'T EVEN DETAILED IN TERMS OF WHAT THE SERVICE WAS PROVIDED and for how many people

They have really poor financial oversight, and at the end of the day, they can't determine whether or not the services are being provided, if they're being provided more than once and billed more than once.

The city is paying for empty beds when people are going homeless on the streets. It really is a problem.”