LA Times: UMK Partner Argues LA’s Homeless Programs Are Beyond Repair

“During a seven-day hearing that concluded Wednesday, the [A]lliance pressed U.S. Dist. Judge David O. Carter to take authority over homeless services away from Bass and the City Council and give it to a to-be-determined third party overseen by the court . . . Bass herself called the system 'broken' during her State of the City address in April, a fact highlighted by Matthew Umhofer, an attorney for the [A]lliance.

Those statements, Umhofer said, only reinforce the [A]lliance’s argument that the city’s homelessness programs are beyond repair and must be placed into receivership.

'The city is not fixing that broken system,’ he said during closing arguments. 'It’s simply doubling down on that broken system.’”