Homelessness and Health Committee · Held
Los Angeles City Council Homelessness and Health Committee meeting, October 28, 2026
On the agenda: The Los Angeles City Council's Homelessness and Health Committee was scheduled to meet Oct. 28, 2026 on 11 items. Its agenda listed a motion on what the City would need to match people to City-funded interim beds if the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is dissolved, a lease with Hope the Mission for a tiny home village at 7500-7570 N. Figueroa St. and Proposition HHH quarterly reports covering April through December 2025. Other items included motions on insurance costs for homeless service providers, El Nino's effects on unhoused people and Operation Healthy Streets notices in Skid Row. The committee's Journal was not posted as of Oct. 29, 2026, and the council files showed no committee action.
Agenda only. As of October 29, 2026, minutes for the October 28, 2026 meeting of the Homelessness and Health Committee of the Los Angeles City Council had not been posted. This summary is based on the agenda and does not report what was decided.
| Where | John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 |
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| Agenda | Official agenda (posted October 23, 2026) |
| City Council districts | Council District 14 |
The Clerk posted the agenda on Oct. 23, 2026 for 2 p.m. in the John Ferraro Council Chamber, Room 340, City Hall. Members, per the Council President’s assignment letter: Ysabel Jurado (chair), Tim McOsker (vice chair), Bob Blumenfield, Imelda Padilla and Nithya Raman. The agenda listed the same five and said the committee takes public comment in person only. The agenda showed no neighborhood council Community Impact Statement on any item (agenda).
Item 1 was a discussion-only presentation by the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition of its report “Pathways to Homelessness: A Pipeline By Design. Skid Row Women’s Needs Assessment 2026,” with no council file (agenda).
2. Insurance costs for homeless service providers
- What it does: The motion deals with the insurance the City requires of homeless service providers and the fiscal impact of those insurance costs. The council file title adds City policies that affect insurance costs (agenda, CF 26-1285).
- Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado, seconded by Hugo Soto-Martínez, on Sept. 8, 2026 (CF 26-1285).
3. City property for the County’s Medical Countermeasures Program
- What it does: A Municipal Facilities Committee report dated Sept. 25, 2026 on a master license agreement that lets the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health use City-owned property for its Medical Countermeasures Program. The recommendation lets the General Services Department negotiate and sign the agreement for use of its properties during declared public health emergencies (agenda, transmittal).
- Other committees: The Arts, Parks, and City Facilities Committee approved it 2-0 at its Oct. 7, 2026 meeting, with Monica Rodriguez and Adrin Nazarian voting yes and Katy Yaroslavsky absent (transmittal).
- Money: The agenda marked the item “Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes” (agenda).
- What’s next: The time limit is Nov. 24, 2026, and the last day for Council action is Nov. 20 (agenda).
4. Measure A implementation by the County
- What it does: A Chief Legislative Analyst report dated March 12, 2026 on how the County of Los Angeles is carrying out Measure A and on the policy and executive working groups set up under it (agenda).
- Who brought it: The file began with a Nov. 22, 2024 motion by Monica Rodriguez, seconded by Bob Blumenfield. The agenda listed a Council action on the file dated Jan. 21, 2025 (agenda, CF 24-1479).
- Money: The agenda marked the item “Fiscal Impact Statement: No” (agenda).
5. Interim bed matching if LAHSA is dissolved
- What it does: The motion asks the City Administrative Officer, the Los Angeles Housing Department and the Chief Legislative Analyst, with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, to report on the region’s interim housing beds by City, County and joint funding, how many County-referred clients are in City-funded beds, and options to keep placements if City and County homeless services split. It also asks what staff and resources the City would need to match people to its own interim beds if LAHSA is dissolved (CF 26-1347).
- Who brought it: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, seconded by Ysabel Jurado, on Sept. 22, 2026 (CF 26-1347).
6. El Nino and people experiencing homelessness
- What it does: The motion asks for a report on how the “super El Nino” predicted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would affect people experiencing homelessness, and on preparations (agenda, CF 26-1346).
- Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado, seconded by Bob Blumenfield, on Sept. 22, 2026 (CF 26-1346).
7. County homelessness programs that serve City residents
- What it does: The motion asks for a report on homelessness programs run by the County departments of Public Health, Mental Health, Health Services and Social Services that support City residents (agenda).
- Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado, seconded by Bob Blumenfield, on Oct. 6, 2026 (CF 26-1412).
8. Operation Healthy Streets notices in Skid Row
- What it does: The motion asks for a report on how people in Skid Row are notified of Operation Healthy Streets cleanups, with recommendations to improve the notices. The council file title names the Bureau of Sanitation (agenda, CF 26-1445).
- Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado, seconded by Hugo Soto-Martínez, on Oct. 9, 2026 (CF 26-1445).
9. Tiny home village at 7500-7570 N. Figueroa St.
- What it does: A Municipal Facilities Committee report dated Sept. 2, 2026 on a lease between the City and Hope the Mission to operate a tiny home village at 7500-7570 N. Figueroa St. The council file title calls it an interim housing site (agenda, CF 23-1022-S41).
- Money: The agenda marked the item “Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes” (agenda).
- Who it affects: Council District 14 (agenda).
10. Proposition HHH quarterly reports
- What it does: The Proposition HHH Administrative Oversight Committee’s April 17, 2026 report transmitting the quarterly reports for the fourth quarter of 2024-25 (April 1 to June 30, 2025) and the first and second quarters of 2025-26 (July 1 to Dec. 31, 2025) (agenda, CF 17-0090-S33).
11. Federal funding and federally funded clinics for unhoused people
- What it does: The motion asks for a report on a strategy to pursue federal funding and use federally funded clinics to meet the mental health, substance use disorder and crisis care needs of people experiencing homelessness in the City (agenda).
- Who brought it: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, seconded by Ysabel Jurado, on Oct. 14, 2026 (CF 26-1468).
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Council files on other pages
- CF 26-2000-S1: Los Angeles City Council, Aug. 11 · Ad Hoc Committee on Charter Review, Sept. 30 · Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Sept. 30 · Energy and Environment Committee, Oct. 1 · Economic Development and Jobs Committee, Oct. 2 · Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee, Oct. 2 · Budget and Finance Committee, Oct. 6 · Public Safety Committee, Oct. 6 and 25 more