LOS ANGELES—Some City Council members are calling for options to have a third party conduct a count of Los Angeles’ unhoused population and a multi-year audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) previous counts, according to two motions filed Sept. 20.
LAHSA has conducted point-in-time homeless counts every year since 2015—with the exception of last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s count, released earlier this month, showed a 4.1 percent increase in the number of unhoused people in Los Angeles County since 2020.
