The “days of funding corrupt failure are over,” said Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development’s Secretary.
By Catholics for Catholics
Enough is enough.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration doubled down on its warning to defund Los Angeles’ embattled homelessness authority, lambasting a system that has received nearly $1 billion in federal funding over five years as homelessness skyrocketed over the past decade.
Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development’s Secretary, joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ripped into the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority during a press conference at the faith-based Los Angeles Dream Center.
“The days of funding corrupt failure are over,” Turner said. “The Trump administration will not fund a homeless industrial complex any longer.”
With a yearly budget of roughly $845 million, LAHSA is the city and county’s main homelessness agency.
Turner said Los Angeles has received nearly $1 billion in federal homelessness funding over the past five years, more than any other jurisdiction in the nation.
Still, the homeless crisis has not gone away. Quite the contrary.
🚨 WOW! HUD Sec. Scott Turner just showed up to fraud-ridden Los Angeles to announce the Trump admin is CUTTING OFF funding to the Homeless Industrial NGO Complex
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 12, 2026
LAHSA, the city's previous homeless organization, has LOST federal dollars 👏🏻
"They will not receive another CENT… pic.twitter.com/1CUbJnAwZr
“During that same decade that homelessness in LA doubled, HUD funding to LA nearly tripled,” Turner said. “We gotta run a new play. That play does not work.”
Turner said that HUD figures do not lie. In fact, he added that they show federal homelessness funding to Los Angeles increased 178% since 2013 while homelessness increased 100%.
Figures show that Los Angeles counted 45,194 homeless people this year, including 29,115 living without shelter.
Turner rattled off a list of failures he said showed how the system had gone off the rails.
“The numbers don’t add up,” Turner said. “The very organization tasked with ending homelessness and equipped with billions of dollars shamelessly wasted them on corruption and mismanagement.”
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