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Earlier this year, the state agency sued a Los Angeles developer that received $114 million to develop homeless housing through the state’s Homekey program. Though the majority of the COVID-era Emergency Solutions Grant funds have been distributed, California’s lack of fraud protections could continue to put future programs in jeopardy, the ...

California has spent $20 billion over the past five years dedicated to the state’s homelessness crisis, including funneling money toward supporting shelters and subsidizing rent.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta alleges that the three stole funds in a scheme that funneled money to supposedly homeless people ... connection with an alleged scam to steal hundreds of thousands ...

California accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States.. In addition to investigating programs that receive federal funds, the new task force will look into “fraud schemes involving the theft of private donations intended to provide support and services for the homeless population,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.

California's attorney general says the three women stole public funds by submitting fraudulent referrals and assistance requests for people who were not actually homeless. Published October 22 ...

SoCal's use of homeless funds under investigation. A federal task force is investigating how Southern California is using money dedicated to battling homelessness after an audit in Los Angeles ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- California Attorney General Robert Bonta has charged three people with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money, from a program meant to help the homeless ...

The Homelessness Fraud and Corruption Task Force will “investigate crimes related to the misappropriation of federal tax dollars intended to alleviate homelessness” in the Central District of ...

California put hundreds of millions of homelessness dollars at risk because of its “disorganized” and “chaotic” anti-fraud policies, according to a critical federal audit. The audit ...

LOS ANGELES - Three people have been charged with fraud and embezzlement for an alleged scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds meant to help California’s homeless ...

Progressive politicians have created the homeless crisis. Their policies have made housing unaffordable, driven away decent job opportunities, and encouraged vagrancy and drug addiction. Their solution – to build taxpayer subsidized housing, provided free and with no conditions to any homeless person – is a special interest scam, guaranteed to never solve the problem. Nowhere

California’s share of that pot was $319.5 million — a 2,505% increase from its typical annual allotment. With that huge influx of money also came an increased risk that bad actors would attempt to use those funds for nefarious purposes. ... the state agency sued a Los Angeles developer that received $114 million to develop homeless housing ...

Earlier this year, the state agency sued a Los Angeles developer that received $114 million to develop homeless housing through the state’s Homekey program. Though the majority of the COVID-era Emergency Solutions Grant funds have been distributed, California’s lack of fraud protections could continue to put future programs in jeopardy, the ...

California has more than 187,000 homeless residents and about 61,400 shelter beds, ... San Jose’s mayor wants to spend money earmarked for affordable housing on more shelters.

The records catalog the chaos inside California homeless shelters. In Salinas, internal emails say the staff at one brand-new shelter grabbed the best donations for themselves and helped friends and family jump the line for housing. In Los Angeles, court records show a leading nonprofit hired a man who was convicted of attempted murder to work security at a shelter, where he committed three ...

With 187,000 residents homeless, California leads the nation—not in solutions, ... put $319 million in homeless funds at risk by sinking money into programs that cost more and accomplish less. ...

California put hundreds of millions of homelessness dollars at risk because of its "disorganized" and "chaotic" anti-fraud policies, according to a critical federal audit released today. The audit ...

The Department of Justice has launched a new criminal task force to investigate "fraud and corruption involving homelessness funds" in California. Since 2020, the California government spent $24 ...

Cash assistance is a proven way to keep people from becoming homeless. The hard part is identifying those who need aid. A clinical trial is trying to find out.