The city of Los Angeles faced a lawsuit from downtown business owners regarding $2 billion in homelessness spending.
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The Dan Bongino ShowOct 16, 2026
The LA Alliance for Human Rights, a group of downtown business and property owners, sued the city and county over homelessness, and the court-ordered Alvarez & Marsal audit in that case identified about $2.4 billion in city homelessness funding, close to the claimed $2 billion.
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… I mean, these are numbers that are out there from objective sources. You've got the State Auditor of California published a report showing that $24 billion of spending on homelessness just couldn't be tracked at all. The city of Los Angeles, there was a lawsuit filed by business owners in the downtown area. They had an equivalent number of $2 billion, just to the city of LA, not even LA County, just enormous amounts of money. Remember that we spend the most of any state. They've doubled the budget of the State of California in the last 10 years. It's a very important point. …
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Supports. Sources consistently report that the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, a group of downtown business and property owners, sued the city and county over the homelessness crisis.[1][2][3][4]
Supports. A court-ordered audit by Alvarez & Marsal, made within the case, identified $2.4 billion of city homelessness funding, close to the claimed $2 billion figure.[5]
Context. The case concerned roughly $1 billion the city spends on homelessness each year, and the receivership petition sought control of those programs, which is consistent with a spending-related lawsuit.[4]
Context. The extraction faithfully reflects the post, which refers to a downtown business-owner lawsuit and a $2 billion figure for the city; the post's own $2 billion is a spending figure, not a lawsuit amount.
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 4 not rated
- 1'Extraordinary' homelessness hearing held in LA's Skid Rowapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Homelessness in LAlaist.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3After years of failure, LA’s homelessness spending could go under receivershipocregister.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4A federal judge weighs turning L.A. city's homelessness ...latimes.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Court Hearing to Discuss LA's Homelessness Servicespasadenanow.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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