American cities throughout the nation are experiencing a large uptick in homelessness, however maybe none greater than Los Angeles, California.

Skid Row was confined to a one block space however now tents and different makeshift shelters might be seen all through town.

Billions of {dollars} have been spent making an attempt to handle this subject but it surely solely appears to worsen, and now one member of town council needs to create a brand new metropolis division to give attention to the issue.

What number of extra hundreds of thousands can be wasted as this new authorities entity fails to unravel the issue?

CBS News experiences:

LA councilmember needs a metropolis homelessness division for a simpler response

A Los Angeles Metropolis Council member is advocating for town to have its personal division of homelessness, to consolidate and focus efforts on the problem.

Los Angeles Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez is lobbying Tuesday for a brand new division to create and oversee applications that handle the homelessness disaster. The division would report back to Mayor Karen Bass and the Metropolis Council, she mentioned.

The councilwoman launched a movement on the matter Friday as a primary step within the course of. The movement can be heard by the Housing and Homelessness Committee at a future date.

“A Department of Homelessness can help verify what each level of government is doing to solve the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time; I cannot say with certainty that we have an efficient and effective operation free of redundancies,” Rodriguez mentioned…

She mentioned systemic components pose challenges to institutionalizing present profitable fashions or new ones governing town’s $1.3 billion funding into its homeless response.

Jazz Shaw feedback at Hot Air:

The issue right here is that the councilwoman is utilizing language that might in all probability describe most municipal departments in any massive metropolis. The announcement is mainly a big pile of phrase salad. Rodriguez cites “irregular and imprecise reporting on contractually-obligated metrics and outcomes.” I suppose that’s honest sufficient, however the place are the specifics? Which departments are assigned which obligations in responding to homelessness points and who’s amassing and compiling all the outcomes of these actions? If it’s not town’s Housing Division together with the Mayor’s workplace, then there’s in all probability one thing very improper, however a good portion of the allotted funding goes to the Metropolis Administrative Officer for some purpose.

Invoice Melugin of FOX Information not too long ago posted a brief video from downtown LA: