Los Angeles’ compliance with a settlement to expand short-term homeless shelter capacity will be monitored by mediator and data analyst Daniel Garrie, after a federal judge found the city breached the agreement.
Garrie, with support from LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia, will scrutinize the city’s use of homeless services funding and regularly make public reports of LA’s progress creating 13,000 beds by 2027, said Judge David Carter in a Tuesday order in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
Carter in August said the city breached its agreement but held back from placing the city’s homeless services ...