Nearly half of L.A.'s record homelessness budget went unspent: city controller

NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Nearly half of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' record 1.3 billion U.S. dollars homelessness budget for fiscal 2023-24 went unspent, The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.

Kenneth Mejia, the city controller of Los Angeles, the most populous city in the western U.S. state of California, found that only 599 million dollars had actually been spent, and an additional 195 million dolla