Los Angeles agreed to create 14,000 housing and shelter opportunities by June 2027 and keep at least 12,915 open through June 2029 under an expanded court agreement approved in May 2026, LAist reported in its account of the agreement. A point-in-time count cited in court records put the number of people experiencing homelessness within city limits above 43,500, most of them unsheltered, according to the same LAist report.
Records limit what the monitor could confirm
A federal-court review by Nardello & Co. examined how city and county agencies report the number of people served in homeless housing. The agencies rely on separate databases, self-reported figures and manual transfers, and privacy restrictions prevented the monitor from independently checking the underlying data, according to the Los Angeles Times’ account of the filed report.
The information submitted to the court comes from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the Los Angeles Housing Department, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and the mayor’s office. Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program tracks occupancy in an internal Google spreadsheet and does not use the Homeless Management Information System, which tracks street contacts and housing placements. The Housing Authority said it welcomed continued work with the city on data-sharing, subject to privacy protections; the mayor’s office did not respond to a request for comment, the Times reported.
Building problems affected occupancy and transfers
At one Los Angeles County master-leased housing project, 102 people were staying in a building with 169 beds. Its manager cited water damage, elevator outages and copper-wire theft among the problems there, and was overseeing the transfer of 51 residents from another building after flooding made it unusable, according to the Times’ reporting on the monitor’s site visits.
At a separate 225-unit supportive housing building, 83 units were vacant while move-ins were paused for remediation related to copper theft. The Times reported that an attempt to take wire from the building’s water system affected more than 20 units and several shared areas. The monitor visited dozens of shelters and permanent housing projects; staff at more than half the locations declined to answer questions or provide access, the Times reported.
