To the editor: In April 2024, The Times reported that L.A. taxpayers had not been given a transparent reply to the place billions of {dollars} earmarked for homeless applications had gone. Now, a yr later, an replace of a court-appointed audit — posted on the web site of U.S. District Decide David O. Carter and reported by The Times — has discovered that the town, and particularly the Los Angeles Homeless Providers Authority, has been unable to trace precisely how a lot it spent on homeless applications and whether or not providers have been even supplied. Ineptitude, obfuscation, waste and presumably fraud. Lastly, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors has voted to create a brand new county homeless division, which can in the end management the funds generated by Measure A — the brand new half-cent gross sales tax for the homeless that we, the taxpayers, voted for in November (“County supervisors create new homeless agency, despite warnings from L.A. mayor,” April 1). LAHSA had its probability. If one thing doesn’t work, stop throwing cash at it. The town and county can handle with out this dysfunctional entity.
Susan Scheding, Mar Vista
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To the editor: We don’t want a brand new homeless company. We have to use each greenback allotted to purchase the homeless a leisure car, a motor dwelling, a Residence Depot software shed was a cabin or one other prefab unit. This absurd political perspective of making businesses that monitor the variety of the homeless — of salaried personnel strolling round with a pad asking the homeless if they’re OK — is how California and Los Angeles squandered tens of millions. In 2023, there were just under seven homeless people dying a day in Los Angeles. That is “change?” What change?
Michele Castagnetti, Los Angeles
