LA County supervisors declare homeless emergency, aiming to expedite housing, services
The same kind of foot-dragging occurs when the county tries to hire more mental health counselors for the Department of Mental Health, which last month was experiencing a 25% vacancy rate. An emergency declaration can push aside many bureaucratic hindrances and allow for faster hiring of new employees to send to the front lines of homelessness quicker, she said.“This emergency proclamation boils down to cutting red tape,” she said.
Third District Supervisor Lindsey Horvath wanted the emergency declaration to bring the county into a closer working relationship with the county’s 88 cities. “We want to make sure we are not going in 89 different directions,” she said.
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