The Trump administration has suspended federal funding to Los Angeles’s beleaguered homelessness agency.
The announcement is the administration’s latest move rescinding funding to California, where Donald Trump has feuded with the state’s Democratic leaders.
In a letter to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the largest continuum of care (CoC) homeless services agency in the nation, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) immediately suspended funds to the agency, pending an investigation citing allegations of fraud.
“Hud will fund results, not corrupt failure or the homeless industrial complex,” secretary Scott Turner said in a statement. “Taxpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve.”