No one’s sad to see the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority partially withdraw from the fight against regional homelessness.
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LA's homeless authority dissolves after its outreach network forged signatures; New York Post calls it sanity.
“They built a network to find guys sleeping under an overpass, and somebody used that exact list to fake ballot signatures — then the agency dissolves and the New York Post calls it sanity. That's not a coincidence, that's a cleanup crew. The people who used to be counted on LAHSA's rolls don't get housed by "sanity," they just get uncounted.”
“Look, an agency whose own outreach list got used for voter fraud has no business running itself — this is accountability, not collapse, and the Post's right that taxpayers should be relieved. Though I suppose accountability usually means somebody stays and fixes the thing, not everybody quits in nine days and hands it to two rival bureaucracies. Did I say that? That's not the talking point.”
Earlier in this story
- LA's homeless authority dies rather than reform; county and city now compete for the body. By Mort · the breakfast edition, 17 September 2026
- LA's homeless authority loses its chair to federal pressure, then loses itself to two rival governments. By Mort · the milkman edition, 17 September 2026
The receipts
· FBI arrests suspect accused of paying LA homeless to forge signatures using registered voters' identities from the morgue, 10 Sep 2026
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