Turner, Kennedy in LA: The Trump Admin Will Not Fund the Failed Homeless Industrial Complex

Turner, Kennedy in LA: The Trump Admin Will Not Fund the Failed Homeless Industrial Complex Turner, Kennedy in LA: The Trump Admin Will Not Fund the Failed Homeless Industrial Complex Calls out California’s policies driving record homelessness August 11, 2026 Watch Press Conference LOS ANGELES - Today, Secretary Scott Turner and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. called out California’s failed policies that have ignited its drug-fueled homelessness crisis and reiterated their commitment to cut off funding for organizations abusing taxpayer dollars to expand the homeless industrial complex instead of delivering real results. Despite receiving more federal homelessness funding than any other jurisdiction in the nation, LA remains the epicenter of the nation’s homelessness crisis. In the last decade, HUD funding to LA nearly tripled, yet homelessness in LA doubled. In June, Secretary Turner took action to freeze funding to LAHSA, the lead agency for LA’s homelessness response, which has received over $1 billion taxpayer dollars since 2013 despite its record of mismanagement, fraud, and abuse. “Today, we witnessed the heartbreaking realities of LA’s drug-fuel