LOS ANGELES—Nearly 1 million Los Angeles County households reported being food insecure during the pandemic, and among the most impacted residents were single parents, according to a report released Thursday by Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin for World Food Day. According to Galperin, food banks reported serving 10 times more working and low-income families…
Nearly 1M LA County Households Reported Food Insecurity During Pandemic: Report
LA Controller: City Needs More Local Contracting
LOS ANGELES—The City of Los Angeles could generate millions of dollars in additional tax revenue by putting more emphasis on giving municipal contracts to local businesses, a move that would also support the city’s economy and create jobs, City Controller Ron Galperin said May 20. Galperin sent a letter to the mayor and city council,…
LA-Funded Homeless Housing is Still Slow and Expensive
May 17, 2021
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Commentary Between Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent pre-budget media blitz, President Joe Biden’s “infrastructure plan,” and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s recent State of the City speech, politicians have been making a lot of big claims recently. In an original economic analysis conducted for the Epoch Times, I analyzed Garcetti’s claims that housing funded by the…
Homelessness, COVID-19, and Rising Cost of Employees Hurt L.A. Finances
February 1, 2021
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Commentary Los Angeles city controller Ron Galperin has released his office’s annual Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for fiscal year 2020 and provided an update on how things in the current fiscal year. As expected, it’s bad. During fiscal year 2020, the general fund shrank 9.8 percent from $1.1 billion in July 2019 to just $992…
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