2026年9月19日 美国东部时间下午1:34 / 福克斯新闻
迈克尔·克劳德议员表示：该体系奖励支出和项目活动，却不衡量人们是否真正获得独立
作者：查尔斯·克赖茨
联邦指控称洛杉矶无家可归者救助项目被盗数百万美元，这暴露了一名议员对福克斯新闻数字频道所说的，华盛顿在资助和评估此类项目方面存在更深层次的失败。
洛杉矶最新的几起案件加剧了得克萨斯州共和党众议员迈克尔·克劳德的担忧：不仅有腐败的供应商在侵吞纳税人资金，这些项目也未能实现让人们脱离街头的目标。
“在这些项目中，真正获得向上流动机会的，似乎是运营这些项目的人，”克劳德在众议院监督委员会就洛杉矶、西雅图等地的联邦资助无家可归者救助项目举行听证会之后对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，“这根本不是该项目原本应该有的样子。”
洛杉矶房地产退伍军人携证据抨击巴斯市长 斥其无家可归报告漏洞百出：‘她根本不懂’
46岁的迈克尔·杨、48岁的拉基亚·马龙和55岁的多尼·米切尔在联邦反腐打击行动中被起诉。（美联社照片/杰伊·C·洪；美国司法部）
联邦检察官周三起诉了三名被告，他们涉及两起无家可归者救助欺诈案，被指控滥用纳税人资金，包括据称用于夜总会和相邻宾果游戏厅的资金，以及与虚假住房推荐相关的贿赂。
根据联邦检察官的说法，洛杉矶无家可归者服务局向其中一家涉案非营利组织支付了超过7500万美元，这促使克劳德顺着资金流向追查真正的罪魁祸首。
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克劳德表示，欺诈本身只是更大问题的冰山一角，该体系似乎在奖励支出和项目活动，却未充分衡量其长期成效。
政府常常以“我们拨付了多少钱”来评判成功，而非支出是否“真正帮助了人们”，或者是否有保障措施确保纳税人资金得到合理使用，克劳德将该体系描述为“为欺诈提供了激励”。
“我们必须消除这些激励因素，回归正轨，确保所有这些项目都有监督激励，并且资金得到妥善管理，”克劳德说。
利蒂希娅·詹姆斯面临审查 纽约市在庇护所丑闻中为每名无家可归者花费8.17万美元
凯伦·巴斯市长（盖蒂图片社）
有些项目可能会让人们“陷入一种依赖循环，从某种意义上说，这样项目管理者就能保住工作，靠政府的钱过活，”克劳德说。
“当我们开始调查浪费、欺诈和滥用行为时，就会发现为什么这些民主党领导的州会说‘不，我们不想实施管控’，”他指出洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯辞去洛杉矶无家可归者服务局委员会职务一事。
他表示，洛杉矶并非个例，他提到了被称为联邦政府“住房优先”的理念——通常优先为无家可归者提供住房，而不太考虑戒酒、心理健康治疗或整体稳定服务。
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克劳德在采访中并未使用“住房优先”一词，但他描述了这一批评背后的担忧，认为一些无家可归者救助项目对成功的定义是让人们依赖政府，而非走向独立。
住房优先政策与美国住房和城市发展部（HUD）的“照护连续体”框架截然不同，后者是当地的资助和协调结构，非营利机构、州和地方政府及其他组织通过该结构获得联邦无家可归者救助资金。
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在洛杉矶，洛杉矶无家可归者服务局负责当地的“照护连续体”项目，美国住房和城市发展部表示，该项目在过去五年中获得了近10亿美元的纳税人资金。
今年，在美国住房和城市发展部部长斯科特·特纳的领导下，该局以涉嫌财务管理失败、内部控制不力以及缺乏利益冲突防范措施为由，试图暂停洛杉矶无家可归者服务局的资格。该局已就联邦这一行动向法院提起诉讼。
“‘住房优先’实验让美国民众失望了，它只是将弱势群体安置起来，却毫无成效，”特纳在6月美国住房和城市发展部宣布40.4亿美元的“照护连续体”资助机会时表示。
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洛杉矶市政厅附近101号公路北出口旁的无家可归者营地（右侧）（克里斯蒂娜·豪斯/盖蒂图片社）
“这种意识形态承诺要结束无家可归问题。相反，数十亿美元的纳税人资金被花掉，而无家可归人数却升至历史新高。”
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这笔资金将重点投向提供治疗和康复服务的机构，同时拨出13亿美元用于优先过渡性住房和支持性服务的新项目，并新增旨在防范欺诈、浪费和滥用的措施。
LA homelessness fraud cases expose deeper problem than stolen millions, oversight hawk warns
September 19, 2026 1:34pm EDT / Fox News
Rep. Michael Cloud says the system rewards spending and program activity without measuring whether people gain independence
By Charles Creitz
Federal charges alleging that millions of dollars were siphoned from Los Angeles homelessness programs are exposing what one lawmaker told Fox News Digital is a deeper failure in the way Washington funds and measures such programs.
The latest cases out of Los Angeles fuel the concern of Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas that only are corrupt providers stealing taxpayer money, but that the programs aren’t meeting their goal of getting people off the streets.
“The only people really getting upward mobility in these programs, it would seem, is the people running the programs,” Cloud told Fox News Digital after a House Oversight hearing examining federally funded homelessness programs in Los Angeles, Seattle and elsewhere. “And that’s not really what the program’s supposed to be about.”
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Michael Young, 46, Lakiya Malone, 48, and Donye Mitchell, 55, were charged in the federal fraud crackdown.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong; Department of Justice)
Federal prosecutors charged three defendants Wednesday in separate homelessness-fraud cases involving alleged misuse of taxpayer funds, including money allegedly spent on a nightclub and adjacent bingo hall and bribes allegedly tied to fake housing referrals.
Los Angeles’ homelessness agency paid one of the suspect nonprofits more than $75 million, according to federal prosecutors, leading Cloud to seek out the real culprits blazing the money trail.
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Cloud said the fraud itself is only one piece of a broader problem, and that the system appears to reward spending and program activity without adequately measuring lasting outcomes.
Government too often judges success by “how much money we send out the door” instead of whether the spending is “actually helping people” or whether safeguards are in place to ensure taxpayer dollars are being used properly, Cloud said – describing the system as having been “incentivized for fraud.”
“We’ve got to take those incentives out and get back to making sure that all these programs have incentives for oversight and that the dollars are managed well,” Cloud said.
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Some programs can keep a person “kind of in a cycle of dependency so that the program manager has job security, in a sense, and gets to live off the government dime,” Cloud said
“You [are seeing] as we begin to look into waste, fraud and abuse, why is it that these Democrat-led states are saying, no, we don’t want the controls in place,” he said, pointing to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ decision to step down from the LAHSA commission.
Los Angeles is not alone, he said, citing what has been called the feds’ “Housing First” philosophy – generally prioritizing placing homeless in housing with less immediate regard for sobriety, mental-health treatment or overall stabilizing services.
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Cloud did not use the term “Housing First” during the interview, but he described the concern behind that critique, arguing that some homelessness programs define success in ways that leave people dependent on government rather than moving toward independence.
Housing First is distinct from HUD’s “Continuum of Care” framework, which is the local funding and coordination structure through which nonprofit providers, state and local governments and other organizations receive federal homelessness money.
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In Los Angeles, LAHSA leads the local Continuum of Care, which HUD says received nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the previous five years.
Under Secretary Scott Turner, HUD moved to suspend LAHSA this year, citing alleged failures involving financial management, internal controls and safeguards against conflicts of interest. LAHSA has challenged the federal action in court.
“The ‘housing first’ experiment failed Americans by warehousing the vulnerable without results,” Turner said in June when HUD announced a $4.04 billion Continuum of Care funding opportunity.
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A homeless encampment along the 101 Northbound offramp, at right, is seen near City Hall in downtown Los Angeles.(Christina House/Getty Images)
“This ideology promised to end homelessness. Instead, billions of taxpayer dollars were spent while homelessness increased to record levels.”
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That funding will focus on organizations aiding treatment and recovery, while setting aside $1.3 billion for new projects prioritizing transitional housing and supportive services and adding measures intended to prevent fraud, waste and abuse.
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