{"id":2613435,"date":"2026-06-11T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-hud-pulls-funds-from-the-ruined-husk-of-a-dying-los-angeles-homeless-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:30:55","slug":"trumps-hud-pulls-funds-from-the-ruined-husk-of-a-dying-los-angeles-homeless-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-hud-pulls-funds-from-the-ruined-husk-of-a-dying-los-angeles-homeless-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"HUD Pulls Funds From Dying Los Angeles Homeless Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-hud-pulls-funds-from-the-ruined-husk-of-a-dying-los-angeles-homeless-agency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hud.gov\/aboutus\/leadership\/scott-turner\">Scott Turner<\/a> just shot a carcass. News reports on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-admin-yanks-funding-la-homeless-agency-explosive-fraud-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has informed the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) that it will no longer receive federal funding. <\/p>\n<p>The news stories depict this as a harsh rebuke and a serious loss for the agency, and some <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/11\/us-news\/white-houses-scathing-six-word-message-to-la-as-it-pulls-the-plug-on-citys-largest-homeless-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">say<\/a> HUD has defunded the <em>city\u2019s<\/em> homeless agency. Most of that framing misses what really happened, and LAHSA isn\u2019t a city agency. The only strange thing here is that it took HUD so long to defund a failed organization.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a term missing from news stories on the defunding, and it\u2019s \u201cjoint powers agency.\u201d LAHSA was <a href=\"https:\/\/file.lacounty.gov\/SDSInter\/bos\/supdocs\/161937.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created in 1993<\/a> as part of a lawsuit settlement, an independently managed authority that would be funded and overseen jointly by the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. <\/p>\n<p>It became more important in 2017 with the passage of <a href=\"https:\/\/file.lacounty.gov\/SDSInter\/lac\/1167280_MeasureHFactSheet_9.18.24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Measure H<\/a>, a countywide tax increase initiative that generated hundreds of millions of dollars a year for homeless services. Measure H was repealed and replaced in 2024 by <a href=\"https:\/\/homeless.lacounty.gov\/measure-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Measure A<\/a>, which turned that tax increase into a bigger tax increase. Money poured into the homeless-industrial complex, which grew to match its new revenue sources.<\/p>\n<p>Flooded with new funds, LAHSA was supposed to solve the homelessness problem throughout a giant urban county. Maybe you can already spot the structural problem and the question of incentives: A big new agency with a massive income stream was supposed to <em>end<\/em> the cause of its existence.<\/p>\n<p>Nine years after the first tax increase that was supposed to fund the solution to homelessness, the most recent count of the homeless in Los Angeles County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahsa.org\/news?article=1051-lahsa-releases-finalized-2025-homeless-count-results-after-hud-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">puts their number<\/a> somewhere around 72,000, through a confused process that first made a guess in the high-60,000s. <\/p>\n<p>Aggressively funded, LAHSA has leaked cash. As their \u201cabout LAHSA\u201d page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahsa.org\/about\">declares<\/a>, the authority funds \u201cmore than 100 nonprofit partner agencies,\u201d becoming a fountain of nongovernmental organzization (NGO) money. Sample outcome from a Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/executive-director-south-la-based-charity-arrested-federal-complaint-alleging-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>: \u201cExecutive Director of South L.A.-Based Charity Arrested on Federal Complaint Alleging $23 Million Swindle of Homelessness Funds.\u201d Those big tax increases to end homelessness ended up allegedly paying for \u201clavish spending in Las Vegas, private jet travel, and stays at luxury resorts across the United States \u2013 from Hawaii to Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist sent LAHSA a public records request in January that asks for the records of their decision to grant tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the person who ended up being indicted for allegedly stealing most of the money. LAHSA sends us a monthly update to tell us they still haven\u2019t found those records. Imagine how hard they must be looking.<\/p>\n<p>Leaking cash to apparent fraud and obviously not solving the problem they were funded to solve, LAHSA has become a political target, even among Democrats in Los Angeles. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, a noticeably dim bulb who mostly focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyPHorvath\/status\/1669877331090112515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lame virtue signaling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lindseyhorvath.lacounty.gov\/consolidate-homeless-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">led<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/lindseyhorvath.lacounty.gov\/new-homeless-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">successful effort<\/a> to pull county homeless funding from LAHSA\u2019s joint agency structure and move it to a new system under direct county control.<\/p>\n<p>Losing county funding, LAHSA has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahsa.org\/news?article=1071-lahsa-announces-organizational-restructuring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> major layoffs and a significant restructuring to narrow its focus. After defunding by the county, LAHSA is also watching and waiting as the Los Angeles City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/cityclerk.lacity.org\/onlinedocs\/2026\/26-0512_rpt_CLA_04-08-26.pdf\">explores its options<\/a> regarding the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Much of this is old news. The California news website CalMatters <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/housing\/homelessness\/2025\/05\/la-homeless-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> <em>more than a year ago<\/em> on the implosion of LAHSA, writing that \u201cthe county is\u00a0blowing up\u00a0that joint agency.\u201d This <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-03-06\/court-ordered-audit-finds-flaws-in-l-a-citys-homeless-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> is also more than a year old: \u201cCourt-ordered audit finds major flaws in L.A.\u2019s homeless services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the actual event this week is that Donald Trump\u2019s HUD leadership has withdrawn federal funding from an agency that was functionally near-dead at least a year ago, so obviously a failure that even the dumber elected officials in Los Angeles knew they needed to do something else. The question today is why it took federal officials so long to act.<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist asked HUD for a full copy of its termination letter to LAHSA officials, and here it is below.<\/p>\n<p> <a title=\"View 26.06.11_LAHSA Notice of Suspension_signed on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/1049961325\/26-06-11-LAHSA-Notice-of-Suspension-signed#from_embed\"> 26.06.11_LAHSA Notice of Suspension_signed <\/a> by <a title=\"View The Federalist's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/274202084\/The-Federalist#from_embed\"> The Federalist <\/a> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary Scott Turner just shot a carcass. News reports on Thursday announced the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has informed the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) that it will no longer receive federal funding. The news stories depict this as a harsh rebuke and a serious loss for the agency, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2613436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/homeless-uncertainty-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/homeless-uncertainty-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}