LOS ANGELES—A federal judge said Thursday he does not trust figures the city of Los Angeles is receiving from homeless service providers and has “grave doubts” about efforts to monitor the programs.
The federal court hearing was called by U.S. District Judge David Carter to discuss the bleak picture painted by an independent consulting firm that spent a year trying to track expenditures for three programs designed to help the homeless living on the streets of Los Angeles.
Carter described the problem that has bedeviled city leaders dealing with homeless issues for at least 18 years as “no accountability. This is old news.”…