L.A Homeless Services Authority Names Va Lecia Adams Kellum As CEO
Los Angeles, CA–Va Lecia Adams Kellum has been named the new Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The L.A County Board of Supervisors and Mayor Karen
Los Angeles, CA–Va Lecia Adams Kellum has been named the new Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The L.A County Board of Supervisors and Mayor Karen Bass gathered with LAHSA commissioners, announcing the news during a press conference Monday at City Hall.
LAHSA Commission’s voted unanimously to select Dr. Adams Kellum as CEO.
“In Dr. Adams Kellum, we are bringing new leadership to LAHSA that is completely aligned with the new spirit of unity and urgency that the City and the County are bringing to our crisis of homelessness,” said Mayor Karen Bass, who called Dr. Adams Kellum was instrumental in developing the City’s new, Inside Safe strategy.
Dr. Adams Kellum is the current President and CEO of St. Joseph Center, where she has been instrumental in expanding the social service organization.
She will first work on L.A’s homeless crisis with Bass and her Inside Safe Initiative.
The initiative is focused on helping those living in tent gain permanent housing. L.A City Council voted last week to approve $50 million in emergency funding for the program.
She has spent years innovating and developing superior and successful ways to transition people from the streets and into lasting stability and permanent housing,” Bass said.
Adams Kellum is scheduled to begin her new role on or before March 24.
She has served on the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Ad Hoc Committee on Black People Experiencing Homelessness and the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ Race Equity Network.
She currently sits on several boards including the Housing California, Policy Lab Advisory, and the Board of Trustees for Mount Saint Mary’s University.
“I will admit I have had my doubts about LAHSA’s work. What LAHSA has done and, frankly, what our county and the city have done so far to address the homelessness crisis, has not worked. But Va Lecia Adams Kellum has been tapped as the new Executive Director of LAHSA because she is someone who has risen to meet the homelessness crisis in a bold way. She has my full support.”
Supervisor Janice Hahn
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