The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission on March 4 released the recommendations of its Ad Hoc Committee on Governance. The report lays out a path to a regionally coordinated response to the homelessness and housing crisis that aligns resources and authority and establishes shared goals.
Ann Oliva, visiting senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a leading national research and policy institute focused on reducing poverty and inequality, wrote the report. The report reflects the perspectives of lived expertise, philanthropy, government, elected officials, LAHSA Commission members and input from hundreds of stakeholders across the regional homelessness services system over the past year.
It recommends actions in three areas of focus: strengthening LAHSA’s operational effectiveness given its exponential growth, including improvements to contracting and procurement processes; streamlining governing bodies of LAHSA to clarify roles and accountability, enhance transparency to elected officials and incorporate greater involvement of people with lived experience in meaningful ways; and engaging elected officials to create a shared mandate for system change, by establishing bold, collective goals shared by the 88 cities and the county, and a path toward a system-wide structure with the authority and flexibility to implement it.
“Homelessness reflects a systemic failure to help people when they need it most. We can and must do better,” Oliva said. “We must work in alignment across jurisdictions, which is challenging in a large, decentralized area like Los Angeles. This report recommends putting city and county elected officials at the same table to foster better coordination, and hopefully improve services for people experiencing homelessness across the region.”
For information, visit lahsa.org/documents?id=5153-lahsa-report-on-governance. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission on March 4 released the recommendations of its Ad Hoc Committee on Governance. The report lays out a path to a regionally coordinated response to the homelessness and housing crisis that aligns resources and authority and establishes shared goals.
Ann Oliva, visiting senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a leading national research and policy institute focused on reducing poverty and inequality, wrote the report. The report reflects the perspectives of lived expertise, philanthropy, government, elected officials, LAHSA Commission members and input from hundreds of stakeholders across the regional homelessness services system over the past year.
It recommends actions in three areas of focus: strengthening LAHSA’s operational effectiveness given its exponential growth, including improvements to contracting and procurement processes; streamlining governing bodies of LAHSA to clarify roles and accountability, enhance transparency to elected officials and incorporate greater involvement of people with lived experience in meaningful ways; and engaging elected officials to create a shared mandate for system change, by establishing bold, collective goals shared by the 88 cities and the county, and a path toward a system-wide structure with the authority and flexibility to implement it.
“Homelessness reflects a systemic failure to help people when they need it most. We can and must do better,” Oliva said. “We must work in alignment across jurisdictions, which is challenging in a large, decentralized area like Los Angeles. This report recommends putting city and county elected officials at the same table to foster better coordination, and hopefully improve services for people experiencing homelessness across the region.”
For information, visit lahsa.org/documents?id=5153-lahsa-report-on-governance.
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