L.A. County supervisors approve plan to study homeless services overhaul

"Change and structural change are hard," said the motion's author, board Chair Lindsey Horvath. "It is time to take the hard but necessary steps to double down on transparency and accountability on homelessness by creating a county department where we have direct oversight."

Supervisor Janice Hahn expressed her reserves, saying, "For me, I'm going to want to know how this department is going to fix what is broken. How would this do a better job at fixing this crisis? I want to take the final vote with eyes wide open."

Chief Executive Fesia Davenport stated, "My report will say yes, it is feasible, or no, it is not feasible. There could be analysis of how to avoid repeating issues that came up in an audit of the homeless authority issued last week and in past audits."

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