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    Los Angeles agencies returned $150 million in federal funds to house homeless people

    by Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times Oct 02, 2022 8 minutes
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    LOS ANGELES — Nearly $150 million worth of federal grants to the three main housing agencies working to reduce homelessness in Greater Los Angeles went unspent between 2015 and 2020, as the number of unhoused people soared.

    Instead of being used to address L.A.'s acute homelessness crisis, the money was returned to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to data provided to the Los Angeles Times by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. More than 85% of the returned funds were earmarked fr sorely needed permanent supportive housing.

    LAHSA returned more than $29 million to HUD during the six-year period; the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles returned more than $82 million; and the Los Angeles County Development Authority returned nearly $38 million.

    Asked why so much federal money went unspent, LAHSA spokesman Ahmad Chapman said in an email that, while the data are "imperfect," his agency operates "in a climate where the rental market is so hard to access, it makes it very challenging to use all these resources."

    But the amount given back to HUD by the three agencies over the six years is more than the total amount of grants the federal housing agency awarded them in 2020, $133.1 million.

    "Given the need in L.A., we want every single dollar utilized," said Molly Rysman, LAHSA's chief programs officer.

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