The executive director for the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority resigned. Heidi Marston cited a lack of control over regulatory or policy decisions, underfunding for service providers and red tape as reasons she’s stepping down.
Marston had served as LAHSA's executive director since June 2020. In December 2019, she had been named acting executive director, less than a year after she started as chief program officer.
Marston wrote in her Medium post that the homelessness crisis has been expanding: for every 205 people in L.A. County who resolved their homelessness in 2020, 225 people fell into homelessness the same day. She said the reasons for this, in part, are systemic racism, low wages and a high cost of living.
“It is all too simple to blame and problem-solve around visible targets like the people suffering on the streets, non-profit homeless service providers, or LAHSA,” Marston wrote. “The inescapable reality is that society’s collective focus has been on what is easily identifiable, not on the systemic issues underlying the crisis look at the wider landscape reveals causes — and consequent solutions — to the crisis that demands greater blame than any service provider or individual.
LAHSA is the lead agency in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care — a consolidated system meant to guide and track people experiencing homelessness through housing and services. Services include outreach, intake and assessment, emergency shelters, transitional housing and permanent or supportive housing.
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