Yaroslavsky on LAHSA Funding Fight
Former longtime L.A. leader Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at UCLA Luskin, commented in a CBS News/KCAL broadcast about plans by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to create a new homelessness department, stripping funds from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). “LAHSA was created as a result of a lawsuit between the city and county some 30 years ago or more,” said Yaroslavsky, who was on the city council at that time. “The county is the human service provider, mental health, health, drug rehabilitation, things of that sort,” he said. “The city has to provide the housing or shelter for these individuals to get them off the street and to get them back to where they can function in society. One without the other is a prescription for failure, with a capital F.” On April 1, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a new county homelessness department.