How One Woman “ROBBED” the Poor to Pay the Rich – $800M SCANDAL in Los Angeles of stolen funds to fix homelessness

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Whistleblowers say LA’s top homeless official hired unqualified friends, tried to destroy public records

LAHSA officials had refused to disclose the documents, but reversed themselves after weeks of questions by LAist and criticism from attorneys who said the agency was violating public records laws.

laist.com

Los Angeles homeless chief to resign after the county guts her agency

Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, announced her resignation Friday.

www.latimes.com

 

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[Flywin Lannister]

This ridiculous broad is making all Black people look bad.

Now when a GOOD, WELL-MEANING Black person is up for a top position... cacs can use this to think and say "No n---az"

What a clown, her and her dummy husband.

 

[UpAndComing]

Government creating Welfare, Section 8, and other "End Poverty" programs being the #1 reason American Citizens are in Poverty is not talked about enough

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

This is why "unleashing the markets" in this political culture, without addressing how power becomes concentrated in unaccountable hands, is a recipe for disaster. Without deep structural reform, all the deregulation, "abundance movement" rhetoric, and private-public hybrid schemes do is create new channels for corruption, grift, and evasion of responsibility. If anything, we need stronger oversight, and increased transparency, and these things will just keep being repeated.

This ridiculous broad is making all Black people look bad.

Now when a GOOD, WELL-MEANING Black person is up for a top position... cacs can use this to think and say "No n---az"

What a clown, her and her dummy husband.

This wasn't the work of a single person. Multiple officials, including attorneys from the LA County Counsel's Office, were involved in shielding her misconduct from the public. The whistleblower letters were withheld under dubious legal pretenses, and the LAHSA Commission quietly approved a $65,000 settlement with a staffer who raised concerns. This is systemic failure, not a solo act. The thread title is misleading.

 

[badboys11]

So the power went out Friday in India


Guess who stopped posting political posts


Guess who's back posting now that they got power




U ain't slick pahjeet

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Government creating Welfare, Section 8, and other "End Poverty" programs being the #1 reason American Citizens are in Poverty is not talked about enough

It's not talked about because it's not true. Those things were created in response to poverty, not to cause it, intentionally or unintentionally. Blaming anti-poverty programs for poverty is like blaming hospitals for illness.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

This is why "unleashing the markets" in this political culture, without addressing how power becomes concentrated in unaccountable hands, is a recipe for disaster. Without deep structural reform, all the deregulation, "abundance movement" rhetoric, and private-public hybrid schemes do is create new channels for corruption, grift, and evasion of responsibility. If anything, we need stronger oversight, and increased transparency, and these things will just keep being repeated.



This wasn't the work of a single person. Multiple officials, including attorneys from the LA County Counsel's Office, were involved in shielding her misconduct from the public. The whistleblower letters were withheld under dubious legal pretenses, and the LAHSA Commission quietly approved a $65,000 settlement with a staffer who raised concerns. This is systemic failure, not a solo act. The thread title is misleading.

This wasn’t a market solution. This was an NGO solution.

Why are you blatantly lying like this?

Plus, democrats created this entire framework.

 

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More examples of @Pull Up the Roots doing a Gish-gallop to flood the zone with bullshyt “systemic” critiques instead of addressing the reality of what happened here. In no way was this “private industry”.

This woman literally is a non-profit career official.

 

[RamsayBolton]

This ridiculous broad is making all Black people look bad.

Now when a GOOD, WELL-MEANING Black person is up for a top position... cacs can use this to think and say "No n---az"

What a clown, her and her dummy husband.

I hate this instinct cause I have it too, but as DEI shows they really dont need a reason or only need the flimsiest reason

 

[UpAndComing]

It's not talked about because it's not true. Those things were created in response to poverty, not to cause it, intentionally or unintentionally. Blaming anti-poverty programs for poverty is like blaming hospitals for illness.

Prior to the social programs in the 1960s, there were a huge decrease of people living below the poverty line in the 1940s and 1950s

But the bolded is how it starts. Create a fictitious boogeyman and a common enemy that people believe to rally around, enact a program, see the carnage that it creates, then back out if it without taking blame, and pump more programs to "combat" an epidemic you started. A-1 ingenious moneygrab

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Prior to the social programs in the 1960s, there were a huge decrease of people living below the poverty line in the 1940s and 1950s

But the bolded is how it starts. Create a fictitious boogeyman and a common enemy that people believe to rally around, enact a program, see the carnage that it creates, then back out if it without taking blame, and pump more programs to "combat" an epidemic you started. A-1 ingenious moneygrab

This is conspiratorial reasoning. The idea that the government "created" poverty to justify welfare programs is ahistorical. Poverty wasn't a fictional boogeyman, it was well-documented and widespread. And the drop before the 1960s didn't magically happen, it came from other government programs like the GI Bill and Social Security. You can't credit those successes while blaming later ones for "carnage" with zero evidence. If anything, poverty reduction stalled when those programs were weakened in the 70s and 80s, not when they were expanded.

 

[UpAndComing]

This is conspiratorial reasoning. The idea that the government "created" poverty to justify welfare programs is ahistorical. Poverty wasn't a fictional boogeyman, it was well-documented and widespread. And the drop before the 1960s didn't magically happen, it came from other government programs like the GI Bill and Social Security. You can't credit those successes while blaming later ones for "carnage" with zero evidence. If anything, poverty reduction stalled when those programs were weakened in the 70s and 80s, not when they were expanded.

This is Semantics 101
You are conflating assuming I am saying "Poverty is not a big deal", "Poverty didn't exist before the Government came along" or that "Poverty was 100% completely eradicated by 1960" when I did not say that in my original post

You are also conflating that the New Deal and GI Bill incentives were the same thing as the Anti-Poverty Lyndon B Johnson programs in the 1960s
The New Deal was centered around fixing up infrastructure issues which revolved around fixing city plumbing systems, telecommunication/electrical power systems, highways/roads, etc to rural, small towns, and underdeveloped cities which in turn brought them out of poverty. On top of GI Bill with Home Loan Grants and Educational programs

To compare what the New Deal was to the era in the 1960s where they were literally just throwing money at people with no plan is downright laughable

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

This wasn’t a market solution. This was an NGO solution.

Why are you blatantly lying like this?

Plus, democrats created this entire framework.

More examples of @Pull Up the Roots doing a Gish-gallop to flood the zone with bullshyt “systemic” critiques instead of addressing the reality of what happened here. In no way was this “private industry”.

This woman literally is a non-profit career official.

Yes, LAHSA is a public-private partnership, and that's exactly the problem. It operates in a privatized, marketized space where millions in public funds flow through unaccountable nonprofit contractors and intermediaries. That's the market logic being criticized. It's outsourcing public responsibilities to third parties with little oversight, where personal relationships and brand image often matter more than transparency or measurable outcomes.

This isn't just about whether she worked for a corporation. The deeper issue is how a whole tier of nonprofits now functions like mini-industries, complete with inflated executive salaries, PR to spin or bury failures, and goals shaped more by donors and optics that don't serve the people they're supposed to be helping. That is market ideology in action. It's just dressed up in progressive language. If even these mid-sized players are this compromised, what do you think happens when even bigger private interests get unleashed on a system that's already too weak to hold anyone accountable?

It's crazy, but it's like you don't even seem to realize what it is you're defending.

Your thread title is misleading too. You're trying to pin this all on one person when it's obviously a bigger structural failure.

 

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Yes, LAHSA is a public-private partnership, and that's exactly the problem. It operates in a privatized, marketized space where millions in public funds flow through unaccountable nonprofit contractors and intermediaries. That's the market logic being criticized. It's outsourcing public responsibilities to third parties with little oversight, where personal relationships and brand image often matter more than transparency or measurable outcomes.

This isn't just about whether she worked for a corporation. The deeper issue is how a whole tier of nonprofits now functions like mini-industries, complete with inflated executive salaries, PR to spin or bury failures, and goals shaped more by donors and optics that don't serve the people they're supposed to be helping. That is market ideology in action. It's just dressed up in progressive language. If even these mid-sized players are this compromised, what do you think happens when even bigger private interests get unleashed on a system that's already too weak to hold anyone accountable?

It's crazy, but it's like you don't even seem to realize what it is you're defending.

Your thread title is misleading too. You're trying to pin this all on one person when it's obviously a bigger structural failure.

You’re defending failure. Typical.

This isn’t a private operation. Its literally funded by public dollars being filtered through an NGO.

Where’s the private investment?