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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner announces the immediate suspension of federal funding for the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority due to a lack of accountability and measurable results. He argues that despite a massive surge in taxpayer spending, the region’s homelessness crisis has only intensified, signaling the failure of the "housing first" model which he claims merely warehouses individuals without addressing underlying issues. To rectify this, the administration is shifting toward a paradigm of self-sufficiency, prioritizing "wraparound services" that target root causes like mental illness and addiction rather than just tracking expenditures or unit counts.

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