(The Center Square) - The chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority resigned days after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors defunded the super-agency to create its own homelessness department.
(The Center Square) - Los Angeles County adopted a $1 billion sales tax increase to use on homelessness spending just weeks after a court-ordered audit found the city of Los Angeles poorly tracked or did not properly track $2.3 billion in homeless program spending.
(The Center Square) - San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan proposed making it a crime to refuse shelter three times within 18 months, with the goal of using the court system to push service-resistant homeless individuals into care.Ā
(The Center Square) - A court-ordered assessment of the City of Los Angelesā $2.3 billion in recent homelessness spending has found officials often paid bills without verifying services were provided.
Hendrick Simoes served in the US Navy for 24 years, retiring last year and starting a new job as a civilian employee of the federal government.
Iowa lawmakers approved bills on elections, firearms and immigration law enforcement Thursday just ahead of the Legislatureās first āfunnelā deadline of the 2025 session. Most bills needed approval by a committee in one chamber this week to remain eligible for consideration. There are exceptions to this deadline, such as bills that involve taxes, government spending [ā¦]
(The Center Square) - The California Legislative Analystās Office says the state has spent $37 billion on homelessness since 2019 and undercounts the homeless.
Legislation that would criminalize sleeping and camping on public property while allowing cities and counties to create designated areas for homeless encampments did not advance in a Senate subcommittee meeting Wednesday. The legislation, Senate Study Bill 1195, was supported by the Cicero Institute, a nonprofit based in Austin, Texas, that promotes bans on unauthorized public [ā¦]
(The Center Square) ā An Ohio pastor faces possible jail time for allowing the homeless to sleep in his church.
(The Center Square) - Some Pennsylvania programs providing support to the stateās homeless population are shocked after receiving word that their services fall under the presidentās āEnding Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencingā executive order.