The newest Los Angeles County Supervisor, Lindsey Horvath is quickly expanding her role by elbowing into positions on issues-based, regional governing boards.
On Friday, July 28, the Third District supervisor, who replaced retiring Sheila Kuehl, was voted chair of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) Commission not long after she appointed herself to the homeless agency’s advisory body.
Horvath, 41, who’s been in office a little more than seven months, also serves on the LA Metro board and authored the motion that placed L.A. County in a state of emergency regarding homelessness, approved on Jan. 10.
She will serve as commission chair at LAHSA for the next year, moving former chair Wendy Greuel to vice chair.
“We have serious work ahead of us to strengthen the impact and accountability of LAHSA as we continue the critical work of housing those who are living on our streets, while also acting urgently to prevent more Angelenos from falling into homelessness,” Horvath said in a statement released Friday.
Horvath said her mission will be to create a more “transparent and accountable” LAHSA. In addressing accountability, Horvath wants to bring in more elected leaders from L.A. County’s 88 cities to serve on the commission. She’s also been supportive of new LAHSA CEO Va Lecia Adams Kellum.
LAHSA is a joint powers authority of both the city and county of Los Angeles and was created in 1993 to address homelessness in L.A. County. It is responsible for conducting point-in-time counts of the unhoused. The most recent count conducted between Jan. 24-Jan. 26 of this year found that 75,518 people were homeless on any night in L.A. County, a 9% increase from the previous year.
Horvath has said she wants to see more than just an annual point-in-time count, using more reference points to develop temporary and permanent shelter for those most in need.
“She would like to see more frequent data sharing so we aren’t relying on one…
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