LA spent $20 million converting a working homeless shelter into 32 empty units, then a controller audit found a third of the city's 47,000 affordable units out of compliance with no monitoring system. Now the same governance failures have hit LAUSD: the board approved $1.13 billion in annual union raises four days after the county warned it couldn't afford them, putting the district on track for insolvency.
Read Top Post →LAUSD’s board approved $1.13 billion a year in union raises just four days after the county warned in writing the district couldn’t afford them. The same city that can’t track whether its affordable housing is solvent now faces a school district projected to hit negative $231 million in cash by November 2027. The pattern is identical: spend the money, skip the oversight, declare an emergency when it collapses.
Jul 24, 2026 · 9 min
LA bought a Ramada Inn for $10.2 million in 2020 and it immediately started housing homeless people. Then the city shut it down so PATH could convert it to permanent supportive housing. Four years and $20 million later, the 32 units sit empty. Nobody accounted for the people who were living inside when it closed. Meanwhile, San Jose was housing people for $18,000 per bed. The building worked until the system touched it.
Mar 26, 2026 · 6 min
