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“洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局的失误如此严重且普遍，以至于洛杉矶县已经撤回了对该机构的资助，”美国住房和城市发展部（HUD）在致函中表示
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发布于2026年6月11日 美国东部时间9:00
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独家报道： 福克斯新闻数字频道获悉，特朗普政府的一个高级部门正在切断洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局的联邦资助，该机构负责协调数十亿美元的无家可归者救助资金，此前该局被指控存在“明显欺诈”、“肆意管理不善”以及多次未能保障纳税人资金安全。
根据福克斯新闻数字频道获取并审阅的一封致洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局（LAHSA）董事会主席温迪·格罗伊尔和首席执行官吉塔·奥尼尔的信件，作为由副总统J·D·万斯领导的白宫欺诈特别工作组成员的住房和城市发展部，将立即暂停洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局的联邦资助，同时由该部监察长调查该机构及其领导层的潜在违法行为。
这封信详细列举了该无家可归者服务机构存在的利益冲突、财务管理失当、欺诈、监管缺失等问题，该市和郡此前已多次试图接管该机构。
此举让美国规模最大的无家可归者服务官僚机构之一直接处于联邦审查之下，而多年来一直有批评声音指出，尽管洛杉矶投入数十亿美元用于无家可归者救助项目，但街头无家可归问题依然根深蒂固。住房和城市发展部的数据显示，洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局可获得市、郡、州和联邦各级资助，自2021年以来仅联邦政府拨款就接近10亿美元。
加州男子因涉嫌盗窃数百万无家可归者资金被捕
2025年9月25日，一名行人在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市中心东14街附近一处大型无家可归者营地的成堆垃圾间穿行。（艾伦·J·沙本 / 洛杉矶时报 via 盖蒂图片社）
“暂停洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局参与联邦政府项目，是在洛杉矶完成这一关键使命的必要举措，”住房和城市发展部在信中写道，“洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局的失误如此严重且普遍，以至于洛杉矶县已经撤回了对该机构的资助，洛杉矶市也正在考虑采取同样行动。”
洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局前高管瓦莱西亚·亚当斯·凯勒姆去年辞职，此前调查发现她曾参与将洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局掌控的210万美元联邦资金拨付给其丈夫位于圣莫尼卡的非营利雇主。
住房和城市发展部表示，去年一名联邦法官还认定洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局存在“明显欺诈”，因为该机构明知一个拥有88个床位的收容所运营率仅约50%，却仍持续申请针对该收容所的资助。
前非营利机构负责人被指控挪用120万美元无家可归者项目资金用于奢华生活，检察官称
住房和城市发展部在信中指出，该法官当时还考虑将洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局置于破产管理人监管之下。
据住房和城市发展部称，洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局无法核实其负责的近2300个住房项目的存在，这是近期困扰该无家可归者服务提供商的又一问题，该部表示其中70%的项目合同未披露上一年度的任何开支。
威尼斯海滩步道沿线的无家可归者营地，洛杉矶正持续面临犯罪和生活质量问题的担忧。洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局将开展年度点对点统计，以评估该地区无家可归者的数量。（路透社）
与此同时，据美联社报道，对洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局的公开审计发现，该机构长期存在向服务提供商付款延迟、记录保存混乱导致无法监控合同执行情况的问题，其中包括向五家不同的服务提供商拨付了500万美元预付款。住房和城市发展部称，2024年11月，洛杉矶市审计长办公室发现洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局未动用2024财年预算中的5.13亿美元公共资金，将其归咎于人员不足和技术陈旧。
“在特朗普总统的领导下，住房和城市发展部将为成果提供资金，而非为腐败的失败或无家可归者产业综合体买单，”住房和城市发展部部长斯科特·特纳在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中表示，“年复一年，数亿纳税人的资金被注入洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局，却几乎没有问责机制。与此同时，无家可归问题急剧恶化。纳税人不会再为一个将自身利益置于本该服务的美国民众之上的组织提供资金支持。”
其他审计结果显示，洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局糟糕的记录保存工作使其无法准确识别或计算其支出在多大程度上惠及了洛杉矶的无家可归者群体。
凯伦·巴斯因未兑现无家可归救助承诺遭质询，将官僚主义归咎于进展缓慢
联邦贸易委员会主席安德鲁·弗格森作为今年早些时候成立的白宫消除欺诈特别工作组副主席，称赞了住房和城市发展部部长斯科特·特纳、唐纳德·特朗普总统以及万斯在这一问题上的领导能力，万斯担任该工作组主席。
“洛杉矶不在乎帮助无家可归者，但特朗普政府在乎，”弗格森告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“洛杉矶浪费了本该用于安置我国最弱势群体的数十亿美元纳税人资金，这令人难以容忍。洛杉矶没有为无家可归者提供住所和照料，反而用这些资金为左翼非营利组织的口袋牟利。这种耻辱今日终结。”
洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯和洛杉矶官员曾援引近期的无家可归者统计数据作为危机开始好转的证据，洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局报告称，2025年全县无家可归者人数连续第二年下降，巴斯表示这是该市近代史上首次连续两年实现无家可归者人数减少。
但数据仍显示洛杉矶县有超过7.2万人无家可归，批评人士继续辩称，小幅下降无法抵消多年来的过度支出、营地泛滥以及多次审计结果——该地区的无家可归者救助系统未能充分跟踪纳税人资金是否产生了预期效果。
2026年洛杉矶市长选举中，洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯成功进入连任竞选的 runoff （决选）。（盖蒂图片社）
据美联社去年报道，住房和城市发展部的联邦行动此前，洛杉矶市和郡官员就已经开始疏远洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局。
市议会已着手探索绕过该机构，直接与服务提供商签订合同，而郡政府则将每年数亿美元的无家可归者救助资金从洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局转移到一个新的郡级部门，理由是在一系列审计后需要加强问责机制。
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“住房和城市发展部不能无视洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局对公共资金的肆意管理不善。住房和城市发展部的使命是减少美国无家可归问题的祸害，”该机构周四致洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局领导层的信中称，“将美国纳税人的数十亿美元交给一个正在接受调查、涉嫌严重滥用联邦资金和‘明显欺诈’的组织，无助于减少无家可归问题。事实上，将宝贵的项目资金转移给洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局，只会让无家可归危机更加严重。”
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系洛杉矶无家可归服务管理局置评。
Trump admin yanks funding from LA homeless agency amid explosive fraud probe: ‘Necessary step’
June 11, 2026 9:00am EDT / Fox News
‘LAHSA’s failures have been so severe and pervasive that Los Angeles County has withdrawn its funding for the agency,’ HUD says in letter
By Alec Schemmel, David Spunt, Cameron Cawthorne Fox News
Published June 11, 2026 9:00am EDT
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EXCLUSIVE:A top Trump agency is cutting off funding to the Los Angeles agency responsible for coordinating billions in homelessness spending after accusing it of “obvious fraud,” “wanton mismanagement” and repeated failures to safeguard taxpayer dollars, Fox News Digital has learned.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which is a member of the White House fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance, is immediately suspending the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s (LAHSA) federal funding while HUD’s inspector general investigates potential offenses by the agency and its leadership, according to a letter sent to LAHSA’s board chair Wendy Greuel and its CEO Gita O’Neill, which was obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The letter detailed conflicts of interest, financial mismanagement, fraud, lack of oversight, and more from the homelessness agency, which has faced efforts by the city and county to take it over.
The move puts one of the country’s biggest homelessness bureaucracies under direct federal scrutiny after years of criticism that billions have gone into homelessness programs in Los Angeles while the crisis remains entrenched on the streets. LAHSA receives funding at the city, county, state and federal level, with the group getting nearly $1 billion from just the federal government since 2021, according to HUD.
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A person walks amid large trash piles at a sprawling homeless encampment near East 14th Street in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2025.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“Suspending LAHSA’s participation in federal government programs is a necessary step in accomplishing that critical mission in Los Angeles,” HUD wrote in the letter. “LAHSA’s failures have been so severe and pervasive that Los Angeles County has withdrawn its funding for the agency, and the City of Los Angeles is considering doing so as well.”
LAHSA’s former top executive, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, resigned last year after she was found to have been a party to directing $2.1 million in federal funds under LAHSA’s control to her husband’s Santa Monica-based nonprofit employer.
HUD says a federal judge last year also concluded that LAHSA had committed “obvious fraud” after it allegedly kept requesting funding for an 88-bed shelter even though it knew the shelter was operating at roughly half-capacity.
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HUD noted in its letter that the judge considered placing LAHSA into receivership as well.
LAHSA’s inability to verify the existence of nearly 2,300 housing sites for which it was responsible is another recent issue that has plagued the homelessness provider, according to HUD, which said 70% of the contracts for those sites did not disclose any expenses over the prior year.
Homeless encampments line the boardwalk at Venice Beach in Los Angeles amid ongoing concerns about crime and quality of life issues. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority will conduct its annual point-in-time count to assess the number of unhoused people in the region.(Reuters)
Public audits of LAHSA, meanwhile, found a pattern of routinely paying service providers late and poor record keeping preventing it from monitoring contracts, including $5 million in cash advances sent to five different service providers, according to the Associated Press. In November 2024, the City Controller’s Office found that LAHSA failed to spend $513 million in public funds budgeted in fiscal year 2024, blaming a lack of staff and old technology, according to HUD.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, HUD will fund results, not corrupt failure or the homeless industrial complex,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Year after year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to LAHSA with little accountability. Meanwhile,homelessness skyrocketed. Taxpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve.”
Other audits concluded that LAHSA’s poor record keeping made it unable to accurately identify or calculate how well its spending has been benefiting the homeless population in Los Angeles.
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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who is the vice chair of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, praised the leadership on this issue from HUD Secretary Scott Turner, President Donald Trump and Vance, who serves as the chairman of the fraud task force that was established earlier this year.
“Los Angeles didn’t care about helping the homeless, but the Trump Administration does,” Ferguson told Fox News Digital. “It is unconscionable that Los Angeles has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars that was supposed to be used on housing our nation’s most vulnerable. Instead of providing a roof and care for the homeless, Los Angeles has used these funds to line the pockets of left-wing NGOs. Such a disgrace ends today.”
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles officials have pointed to recent homeless-count data as evidence that the crisis has begun to improve, with LAHSA reporting that countywide homelessness fell for a second straight year in 2025 and Bass saying it marked the first time in the city’s recent history that homelessness had declined two years in a row.
But the numbers still showed more than 72,000 people experiencing homelessness across Los Angeles County, and critics have continued to argue that modest declines do not erase years of runaway spending, encampments and repeated audit findings that the region’s homelessness system has failed to adequately track whether taxpayer dollars are producing results.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to a runoff in her bid to win reelection as Mayor of Los Angeles(Getty Images)
The federal action from HUD comes after Los Angeles city and county officials had already begun backing away from LAHSA, the Associated Press reported last year.
The city council moved to explore bypassing the agency and contracting directly with providers, while the county moved to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in annual homelessness funding away from LAHSA and into a new county department, citing the need for stronger accountability after a series of audits.
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“HUD cannot ignore LAHSA’s wanton mismanagement of public funds.HUD’s mission is to reduce the plague of homelessness in America,” the agency’s letter to LAHSA leadership on Thursday stated. “Turning over billions of dollars from American taxpayers to an organization under investigation and suspected of gross misuse of federal funding and “obvious fraud” does nothing to reduce homelessness. Indeed, diverting dollars from worthy programs to LAHSA merely makes the homeless crisis worse.”
Fox News Digital reached out to LAHSA for comment.
