What this dataset measures
Built to test two claims: that audits have repeatedly found California and Los Angeles cannot track whether homelessness money works, and that billions in LA homelessness money were lost to fraud. Included: every audit or court-ordered assessment of LAHSA or LA/state homelessness spending FactHub verified from the primary report for 2022-2026, the State Auditor's 2025 high-risk report, the four homelessness cases announced Sept. 16, 2026, and two large concluded LA-area public-money fraud cases for scale. It is not a complete list of California audits or prosecutions.
- Geography
- United States, California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
- Unit of observation
- Audit finding or criminal case
- Update cadence
- As new audits and case outcomes are released
- Curator
- FactHub
Saved analyses
Oversight findings on homelessness money, 2022-2026
Question: How often, and by whom, have reviewers found that LA or California could not track or manage homelessness money?
Result: Seven findings by five different reviewers (HUD's inspector general, the City Controller twice, the State Auditor twice, a court-ordered assessor and the County Auditor-Controller) between January 2022 and May 2026.
Operation: Filter the register to category Waste or mismanagement; keep date, reviewer and a short label of the finding
Scope: findings table, 7 rows
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- Short labels summarize each report; read the source for its full findings.
- The 2025 State Auditor row records that homelessness was not added to the high-risk list, alongside its stated concern about Cal ICH.
Amounts in the four homelessness fraud cases announced Sept. 16, 2026
Question: How much money is at issue in the homelessness fraud cases federal prosecutors brought in 2026?
Result: Alleged or admitted diversion: Young $7.5 million, Soofer at least $2 million, Mitchell about $315,000 disbursed, Malone $180,000 in bribes.
Operation: Filter the register to the four Sept. 16, 2026 cases; add public funds each provider received as stated in the release
Scope: findings table, 4 rows, plus figures from doj-2026
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- Allegations except for Soofer's admissions; amounts may change at trial or sentencing.
- Public funds received are what the providers were paid in total, most of it presumably for real services; the release does not say how much was lost.
- Malone's row has no funds-received figure because she was an employee, not a provider.
Charged homelessness fraud compared with funding reviewed
Question: Do the charged homelessness fraud cases approach billions of dollars?
Result: About $10 million alleged or admitted diverted; even all public money the charged providers received (about $141 million) is far below the $2.3 billion of city funding A&M reviewed, which was not a loss figure.
Operation: Sum amountUsd and publicFundsReceivedUsd over the charged-cases rows; list A&M's reviewed funding for scale
Scope: charged-cases analysis and am-assessment
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- The A&M figure covers three city programs in 2020-2024, while the providers were paid by LAHSA, the city, the county and HUD; the comparison shows scale only.
- More cases may follow; the task force's work is ongoing.
Register entries by category
Question: How does the register break down by type of finding?
Result: 7 waste or mismanagement findings, 2 fraud convictions, 4 fraud cases charged or pending.
Operation: Count rows by category
Scope: findings table, all 13 rows
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- Counts describe FactHub's selection, not the frequency of audits or crimes.
Register entries by year and category, 2022-2026
Question: In which years did the register's oversight findings and fraud cases occur?
Result: Oversight findings appear in every year from 2022 to 2026 (1, 1, 2, 2 and 1); the two convictions fall in 2024 and 2025 and the four pending homelessness fraud cases in 2026.
Operation: Count register rows by calendar year of date and category, including zero counts
Scope: findings table, all 13 rows
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- Counts describe FactHub's selection, not how often audits or crimes occur; 2026 covers January to September.
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