Conditions are so bad in some parts of the City of Los Angeles that even the Third World would be shocked. This may or may not have something to do with the city awarding over $100M to a nonprofit whose lawyers prevent the city from cleaning up the streets.

The City will pay activist lawyers to represent tenants and fight for their “right” not to be evicted, even as those same lawyers have profited from keeping people on the street. The fact that the city even pays for tenants to have a lawyer is a scandal in itself, but now they are awarding a law firm that has helped make Los Angeles worse off, which is all the more infuriating.

What is even the point of spending money to “house” the “unhoused” if you de facto pay for efforts to stop that? Does that make sense to you?

According to the California Post:

Los Angeles just cut a whopping $106.6 million taxpayer check to a nonprofit law firm whose lawyers have spent years hindering the city’s ability to dismantle homeless camps and clean up city streets — with one attorney billing as much as $1,025 an hour for work tied to its activism.

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) was awarded the largest share of an eye-popping $177 million tenant-rights funding package approved at City Hall this week, despite opposition from the City Attorney.

Under the deal, Los Angeles will funnel $106,572,543.69 over the next three years to LAFLA for eviction-defense services, even as attorneys connected to the organization have repeatedly filed lawsuits that blocked the city from enforcing municipal codes aimed at keeping sidewalks clear of encampments and neighborhoods safe.

What is even worse is that the conflicts of interest are conflicting with this one. While the “nonprofit” was just awarded a contract that “is nearly twice its annual revenue,” the organization's “attorneys have also been involved in lawsuits that reshaped how Los Angeles handles enforcement tied to the homelessness crisis.”

For example, the firm recently filed a lawsuit against the city, arguing that the city had no right to dismantle abandoned RVs. It is unclear how a group of unelected lawyers gets to decide something like that, but anything for “justice,” right?

In a recent case, the court sided with a plaintiff represented by the firm, who argued that the city had no right to dispose of his belongings during an encampment cleanup. Now, the city can be held liable if it ever makes that “mistake” again and is required to store property seized during cleanups.

In other words, the city has awarded an organization that works day and night to ensure the homeless are homeless, while disregarding the rights of everyone else. I just can't deal with the insanity of this one.

The bureaucracy in Los Angeles is out of control, to say the very least.

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