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L.A. County Approves More Than $500 Million in Homeless Spending

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved $527.1 million in funding for strategies to battle homelessness in fiscal year 2021-22, while expressing frustration over the rising numbers of people living on the street…

…The California Housing Partnership reports that by the end of 2020, L.A. County and local partner jurisdictions had helped developers and service providers leverage state and federal resources to create more than 120,000 affordable homes, a 4% increase from 2019 inventory levels. Yet the same report concluded that the county needs to add approximately 499,430 affordable homes to meet the current demand among renter households at or below 50% of the area median income…