Every BeaconStone publication organized around the accountability questions it addresses. For a chronological list, see News & Resources.
Research on what independent oversight of homelessness spending should look like, and where that authority should sit within Los Angeles government.
Policy Paper No. 1Not whether Los Angeles needs an Inspector General, but what kind of independent oversight its homelessness system actually requires — with a close look at San Francisco's Proposition C model.
Policy ResearchHow San Francisco built independent oversight for public spending — and what a stronger version could look like in Los Angeles.
Policy Paper No. 6A LAHSA Audit Committee chair change during active audit work tests whether oversight independence rests on durable governance safeguards or on individual officeholders.
Research on how homelessness outcomes are measured in Los Angeles, whether existing standards are being met, and who verifies the results.
Policy Paper No. 2Los Angeles already has a federal framework for measuring whether people stay housed. The real gap isn't the metric — it's who's allowed to verify it.
Research on whether the public can actually trace a homelessness dollar from appropriation to outcome — and what a real spending dashboard would require.
Policy Paper No. 3Los Angeles publishes spending totals. It doesn't publish where the money actually goes — and that gap is the whole problem.
Policy Paper No. 5Tracing public dollars from appropriation to program, provider, and outcome — and mapping exactly where that public trail is complete, partial, or breaks down.
Policy Paper No. 8Two County audits of LAHSA, 18 months apart, checked issue by issue: what repeated in how providers are paid, what LAHSA says, and what no one has publicly confirmed was fixed. Opens with a short story; the full paper and evidence follow.
Applied case studies testing BeaconStone's accountability standard against real contracting and compliance decisions.
Policy Paper No. 4A case study in homelessness contract oversight in Los Angeles — and BeaconStone's evidence standard for separating verified findings from reported claims.
Policy Paper No. 7Three independent reviews documented weaknesses in how LA homelessness spending was tracked and verified. Using the SSG/Abundant Blessings matter, this paper asks whether anyone followed those warnings through to verified closure — and what an independent Inspector General would add.
Read the full policy proposal behind this research, or get involved in building support for it.
Read the Amendment