Approved the FY 2025-26 Fourth Homelessness Funding Report
Moves state HHAP grants, Measure A Local Solutions Fund money and General Fund homelessness accounts to keep interim housing, youth housing and Inside Safe running through mid-2026 and into FY 2026-27.
Roll call and money
- Harris-DawsonYes
- JuradoYes
- HuttYes
- McOskerYes
- NazarianYes
- PadillaYes
- ParkYes
- RamanYes
- Soto-MartínezYes
- YaroslavskyYes
- RodriguezNo
- BlumenfieldAbsent
- HernandezAbsent
- LeeAbsent
- Price Jr.Absent
A vote like this doesn't spend money by itself. It tells the Controller to move money between accounts and lets departments sign or extend contracts. Payments show up in Checkbook L.A. later, as providers bill. The Measure A part is a reimbursement: the City pays first and bills the County.
From vote to money- ✓
Staff report or requestApr 3, 2026
The City Administrative Officer sends the funding report with 45 recommendations.
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VoteApr 29, 2026
Council adopts the Housing and Homelessness Committee report, 10-1.
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Signed by the MayorMay 8, 2026
Sent to the Mayor May 1; approved May 8.
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Money moved into the program's accountNot in a public record yet
The Controller makes the account transfers the report authorizes, including up to $36.2M into the Homelessness Emergency Account.
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Contract signed (money committed)Not in a public record yet
Departments and LAHSA amend provider contracts for July to December 2026 interim housing.
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Money paid outWatch Checkbook L.A.
Payments appear as providers bill, usually monthly.
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Reimbursed by another governmentAfter the City spends · $54.9M
Measure A Local Solutions Fund money is paid on a reimbursement basis: the City spends first, then the County repays it.
- Tiny-home village operations: $42,979,510 maximum (Measure A Local Solutions Fund)
- Transfer into the Homelessness Emergency Account: $36,179,658 maximum (Unappropriated Balance)
- Interim housing operations, July to December 2026 (A Bridge Home, Homekey and other sites): $34,595,350 maximum (State HHAP Round 3)
- Inside Safe service providers through LAHSA, January to June 2026, moved to the Housing Department: $24,035,798 maximum (Homelessness Emergency Account)
- Interim housing operations, July to December 2026: $6,842,738 maximum (State HHAP Round 2)
- Project Homekey operations: $6,457,166 maximum (Measure A Local Solutions Fund)
- Youth (TAY) interim housing operations, July 2026 to June 2027: $5,498,439 maximum (State HHAP Round 3)
- LAHSA administration of the City's Measure A Local Solutions Fund contracts: $5,492,964 maximum (Measure A Local Solutions Fund)
- Interim housing operations, July to September 2026: $4,157,740 maximum (State HHAP Round 4)
- Third-party administrator contract: $250,000 maximum (State encampment resolution grant (ERF-4-L))
- Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention grants (HHAP): State block grants to cities, counties and homeless service systems. The City's Round 6 award is $143.6 million, much of it for interim housing.
- Inside Safe: Mayor Karen Bass's program that moves people from encampments into motels and other interim housing, then toward permanent housing. It began under the homelessness emergency the Mayor declared in December 2022.
- Measure A (LA County, 2024): A half-cent countywide sales tax for homelessness services and affordable housing, approved by County voters in November 2024. It replaced the quarter-cent Measure H on April 1, 2025, and splits its money by a fixed formula.
Background: FY 2025-26 Fourth Homelessness Funding Report (CAO, Apr 3, 2026)