Months after establishing a dedicated entity for homeless services, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday formally appointed Sarah Mahin as director of the Department of Homeless Services and Housing.
Mahin, a Georgetown University and University of Texas at Austin alumna, has worked in housing and homelessness for nearly two decades. She joined Housing for Health within the county’s Department of Health Services in April 2019, serving as director for six years.
In that role, Mahin oversaw a $875 million budget and managed a team of more than 600 staff, according to Supervisor Lindsey Horvath’s office. Mahin’s most recent position served as “the blueprint for the Department of Homeless Services and Housing,” the statement added.
In a major shift in L.A.’s homelessness strategy, the Board of Supervisors voted in April to cut funding from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and create a new county-run department. The decision redirects hundreds of millions of dollars away from LAHSA, a joint city-county agency long criticized for mismanagement. Multiple audits and a recent federal court review faulted LAHSA for losing track of billions in taxpayer funds while failing to address the region’s homelessness crisis.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Sarah Mahin as Director of our new County Department of Homeless Services and Housing,” Horvath said.
“She’s exactly who we need, ready to hit the ground running with the urgency this moment demands. Sarah knows the County, she knows LAHSA, and she knows how to get things done. Her deep experience with contract management, data integration, and creating a culture of innovation and progress will be instrumental in charting a new way forward for homeless services in L.A. County. Sarah is a collaborative leader who will bring service providers and all of our city partners together in this vital effort.”
Horvath said Mahin’s experience will be critical as the county transitions funding from LAHSA.
“I am optimistic about the future of our County’s homelessness response with Sarah Mahin at the helm of our new department,” Board Chair Kathryn Barger said. “Sarah’s more than 20 years of leadership experience in housing and homeless services, along with her strong health and housing acumen, make her uniquely qualified to lead this effort from day one.”
Mahin’s appointment is effective immediately, with an annual salary of $375,000.
“I am honored to serve as the inaugural director of the Department of Homeless Services and Housing, and I am grateful to the Board of Supervisors,” Mahin said.
“For me, this work has always been rooted in innovation, collaboration, and accountability to the people and communities that we serve. I am committed to leading with those values at the forefront. Together — with housed and unhoused neighbors, frontline workers, community partners, and local leaders — we will build a department grounded in dignity, inclusion, and real solutions that meet this moment and the future.”
Mahin’s appointment was overwhelmingly supported by the Board of Supervisors, who formally approved the move at Tuesday’s meeting.
“This is a moment to tackle our homelessness crisis in a new and innovative way,” Supervisor Janice Hahn. “Sarah is ready to hit the ground running and with her knowledge of the County, I have no doubt that she will be able to steer this new department with the grace, know-how, and authority it needs.”
Supervisor Hilda Solis praised Mahin’s appointment, highlighting her leadership in major county housing and health initiatives such as the Skid Row Action Plan, the Skid Row Care Campus and the Every Woman Housed program. Solis said Mahin’s work as Director of Housing for Health has transformed services for vulnerable residents and laid the foundation for the new department she will now lead.
“I am confident she will not only advance comprehensive, person-centered solutions to homelessness but also be instrumental in strengthening partnerships with all 88 cities across Los Angeles County as we work together to end homelessness,” Solis said.
SINCE MY WHOLE FAMILY DIED AT THE FBI OF ORLANDO IT GIVES ME GRANDFATHER CLAUSE!!!!
THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE ! IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.
Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?
Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.
In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.
There’s $75 million in a offshore bank account
There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday
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