{"id":2635856,"date":"2026-07-27T08:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlos-angeles-leaders-fail-at-everything-and-youll-never-guess-who-they-blame\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:13:22","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlos-angeles-leaders-fail-at-everything-and-youll-never-guess-who-they-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlos-angeles-leaders-fail-at-everything-and-youll-never-guess-who-they-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll Never Guess Who LA Blames For Its Constant Failures"},"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\">20<\/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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignlos-angeles-leaders-fail-at-everything-and-youll-never-guess-who-they-blame%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=2635856&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>Los Angeles is experiencing a meaningful rise in homelessness, with teh 2024 point-in-time count revealing a 7.9% increase in unsheltered individuals and an overall growth in total homelessness. However, these counts are likely underestimates, as the true number of homeless people throughout the year is much higher.Government spending on homelessness, totaling billions, is largely funneled through numerous nonprofit organizations, yet the problem continues to worsen, suggesting inefficiency and misallocation of funds. Despite massive investments, Los Angeles officials blame federal and state funding cuts-attributed by some to political figures like Donald Trump-for the rise in homelessness, rather than addressing systemic issues. The city\u2019s approach heavily relies on government intervention and aid, with an assumption that homelessness can only be alleviated through continued large-scale government support and free housing. Concurrently, public services like the LAUSD face financial crises amid declining enrollment and increased expenditures, with blame often shifted onto political administrations. the city\u2019s failures are compounded by ineffective policies, misdirected spending, and political blame-shifting, highlighting a cycle of worsening social issues.  <\/p>\n<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>The signs of failure are everywhere, but start here: Los Angeles has more homeless people this year. The annual count, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/2026-homeless-count-first-night\/3834221\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conducted in January<\/a> but amazingly enough not released until well after the June primary elections, shows a 7.9 percent increase in unsheltered homelessness in the City of Los Angeles, with a smaller increase in total homelessness, and also a smaller increase in countywide homelessness. With a couple thousand people <a href=\"https:\/\/lacounty.gov\/2026\/03\/10\/los-angeles-county-homeless-mortality-rate-decreases-for-the-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dying on the street<\/a> every year, the Los Angeles Times quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/G2PF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">zeroed in<\/a> on the true victim of that metastasizing despair:<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Karen Bass has suffered a setback. That poor woman. Stop hurting her, America.<\/p>\n<p>The point-in-time count, an effort to tally up all the people sleeping on the street at a single moment, is certainly an undercount of total year-round homelessness. Look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.gov\/reports--september-2024--2024-point-time-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this document<\/a> from San Francisco as an example: They counted 8,323 people on the street in their 2024 point-in-time count, but estimated the total number of homeless people in the city throughout the year at closer to 20,000. (The dumbest politician in Southern California, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, used this distinction to <a href=\"https:\/\/lindseyhorvath.lacounty.gov\/horvath-homeless-count-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismiss<\/a> the growth in the homeless count as \u201cesoteric.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahsa.org\/documents?id=10076-hc26-coc-data-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">count itself<\/a> verges on self-parody, as volunteers circulate through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xPErCYlgj34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>extremely dangerous<\/em><\/a>  places like Skid Row to ask the homeless their gender identity. Great news: Very few two-spirit people are sleeping on the sidewalk in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you ever find yourself counting the homeless in Los Angeles, remember to ask for pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>California feeds homelessness like that Nicholas Cage character in Las Vegas feeding his alcoholism. Infamously, state auditors reviewing $24 billion in government spending on homelessness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/california-homelessness-spending-audit-24b-five-years-didnt-consistently-track-outcomes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> that they couldn\u2019t really track where it had gone or what it had paid for.<\/p>\n<p>In Los Angeles, special taxes feed the homeless industrial complex. The county referendum called Measure A <a href=\"https:\/\/homeless.lacounty.gov\/measure-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created<\/a> a permanent sales tax increase to fund homelessness programs, while a city referendum called <a href=\"https:\/\/housing.lacity.gov\/housing\/hhh-progress-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Measure HHH<\/a> created bond funding for transitional housing. That flood of funding goes to an army of non-profit corporations. <\/p>\n<p>As the city-county joint powers agency called the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahsa.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> on their website, \u201cThrough LAHSA, funding, program design, outcomes assessment, and technical assistance are provided to\u00a0more than 100 nonprofit partner agencies\u00a0that assist people experiencing homelessness achieve independence and stability in permanent housing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Massive funding, \u201cmore than 100\u201d non-governmental organizations, more homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Spending a fortune but <em>growing<\/em> the problem the money is supposed to solve, Los Angeles officials <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/l-a-mayor-karen-bass-blames-federal-policies-for-rise-in-homelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">know who to blame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mean Donald Trump makes people sleep on the sidewalk in Los Angeles, obviously. From that same news story: \u201cShe said the administration cut federal housing assistance by 50% last year, stripping the city alone of $70 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The failing homeless services authority LAHSA, meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/homeless.lacounty.gov\/news\/a-statement-on-the-2026-homeless-count\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spreads the blame<\/a> to both Trump and Newsom, showing a bold willingness to engage in bipartisan deflection: \u201cThis news is disappointing, but not surprising: these results reflect a significant decline in state and federal funding for our region, not a local strategy failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What they need, LAHSA announces, is more money. \u201cTo invest in solutions at the scale this issue demands, we need more sustained state and federal support,\u201d the statement concludes.<\/p>\n<p>That demand for more support hints at the unstated assumption that underlies the homelessness model in Los Angeles, and you can see it more clearly in a presentation on the importance of federal funding on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lahsa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">front page of LAHSA\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>         <span>Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thousands of people in Los Angeles are being housed with federal funding, so a decline in federal funding will cause more homelessness. Houses come from the government. There\u2019s no other source of housing. If the government doesn\u2019t give people free homes, they become homeless. Officials in Los Angeles have no model for reducing homelessness but an endless, and endlessly growing, government giveaway. \u201cTo invest in solutions at the scale this issue demands, we need more sustained state and federal support.\u201d The government has to give us more free houses, or Donald Trump has <em>caused<\/em> homelessness. <\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, \u201cmore than 100\u201d non-profit corporations get paid in a single county as a result of this focus on free money.<\/p>\n<p>Also this month, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is trending rapidly toward insolvency and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/H2kFp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">facing a takeover<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dad-criminally-charged-after-exploding-at-loudoun-county-education-officials-gets-massive-news-from-governor\/\" title=\"Virginia dad charged after outburst at Loudoun ...y ... receives major news from governor.\">county education officials<\/a>. The district has agreed to substantial <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/12\/us-news\/teachers-earn-whopping-pay-raise-as-under-fire-lausd-folds-to-avert-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pay increases<\/a> for union employees while <a href=\"https:\/\/californiapolicycenter.org\/los-angeles-unifieds-self-inflicted-financial-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">losing almost half<\/a> of its enrollment (\u201c746,831 students in 2002\u2026to a\u00a0projected 375,890 in 2026-2027\u201d) so Donald Trump is to blame. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake \u2013 declines in LAUSD enrollment have been exacerbated by the fear and chaos created by the Trump administration,\u201d the eternally shameless Karen Bass <a href=\"https:\/\/lapublicpress.org\/2026\/01\/la-school-enrollment-ice-immigrant-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Failure is spreading through Los Angeles, a city governed by fools and socialists and socialist fools. They need a way to shift the blame, and they aren\u2019t going to be terribly creative about it.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>WATCH: Burned-out buildings line an entire block of Downtown LA.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors on South Hope Street say 10+ fires have erupted at the same vacant buildings over the past two months, leaving behind charred structures and fears the next blaze could spread. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cyX4Hp4MoK\">pic.twitter.com\/cyX4Hp4MoK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Seedorff (@MattSeedorff) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattSeedorff\/status\/2079436670928339285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\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>LA&#8217;s homelessness rises 7.9%, signs of failure everywhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2635857,"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\/07\/ktla-on-the-count-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[44508,83250,37990,36585,83251],"class_list":["post-2635856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-blame-game","tag-city-failures","tag-local-politics","tag-los-angeles","tag-urban-challenges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ktla-on-the-count-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635856","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=2635856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635860,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635856\/revisions\/2635860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}