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.
Institutional AnalysisAn independent fact-check of the Mayor's CHIP housing press release against RAND, UCLA Lewis Center, and LAHSA data.
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.
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.
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