What have we corrected?

Oct 1, 2026 · /spending, /vendors, vendor pages and search

It said

The filter that removes insurers and other governments from vendor figures matched names by substring, so 17 ordinary vendors and nonprofits whose names contain "Los Angeles County", "Kaiser" or "Anthem" (for example the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition) were left out — about $3.5M of payments across all years.

Correct

Those payees are now included. Insurers, the County of Los Angeles and other government agencies are still excluded.

Source

City Controller, Checkbook LA

Sep 30, 2026 · /budget-2027

It said

The City has suffered two credit downgrades; Fitch rates it AA+ with a negative outlook; all four agencies blame the structural imbalance.

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Three agencies downgraded the City's general obligation rating: S&P to AA- (April 2025), Kroll to AA (May 2025) and Moody's to Aa3 (March 2026). Fitch rates it AAA, stable. Moody's also cited Palisades-fire litigation exposure.

Source

City of Los Angeles investor relations, credit ratings

Sep 30, 2026 · /budget-2027

It said

The budget leaves about $148 million in gaps flagged by the City's own auditor.

Correct

The gaps were flagged by the City Administrative Officer (the Controller is the City's auditor), in the proposed budget. The Council closed three before adoption; about $61 million remains unfunded, including $20 million that depends on a street-lighting assessment.

Source

Budget & Finance Committee report on the 2026-27 budget (CF 26-0600), adopted by Council

Sep 30, 2026 · /budget-2027

It said

Reserves are 'sliding'; the four-year outlook shows expenditure above revenue every year after 2026-27; the budget 'doesn't survive the year'.

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Cumulative reserves rose from 8.32% (2024-25) to 8.98% in the adopted budget, below the 10% goal. The CAO's outlook balances 2026-27, projects gaps in 2027-28 and 2028-29, and small surpluses after.

Source

Adopted Budget 2026-27 and CAO Supporting Information

Sep 30, 2026 · /budget-2027

It said

Budget figures from the Mayor's April proposal were presented as the adopted budget; the budget was described as adopted 12-1 on May 21.

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Figures now come from the Adopted Budget ($14,869.6M total, $8,597.4M General Fund). The Budget Resolution passed 10-1 on May 27; the 12-1 vote on May 21 adopted the committee report.

Source

Adopted Budget 2026-27 (Office of the Controller); Council action form, CF 26-0600

Sep 30, 2026 · /budget-2027

It said

Fire's share of unrestricted revenue is half of Police's.

Correct

It is about a third: 15.9% against 46.6%.

Source

Adopted Budget 2026-27, Exhibit E

Sep 30, 2026 · /budget-2027

It said

An 'independent analysis' put 2027-28 at a ~$300M deficit and ~$1.1B over four years; '$363M — 88 cents of every new dollar' went to mandatory raises; the budget was marketed with 'no service reductions'.

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No source could be found for any of these, so they were removed. The page now uses the CAO's balancing table and outlook.

Source

CAO 2026-27 Supporting Information

Sep 30, 2026 · / (homepage)

It said

Prop HHH 'has deployed only a fraction of its funds after nearly a decade'.

Correct

About $1.1 billion of the $1.2 billion bond had been spent by December 31, 2025, on 131 projects (8,630 units).

Source

CAO Prop HHH status report, April 2026

Sep 30, 2026 · /homelessness

It said

Lower FY2026 spending reflected 'reallocation toward the mayor's Inside Safe initiative'.

Correct

Inside Safe spending also fell, from $136.5M to $121.6M, so the data shows no such reallocation. The claim was removed.

Source

City Controller, Homelessness Expense Tracker

Sep 30, 2026 · /lahsa-xray

It said

LAHSA is a '$900M+' agency; an audit found '$2.3 billion at risk'.

Correct

LAHSA's adopted FY2026-27 budget is $496.6M. The Alvarez & Marsal review found that $2.3B in City homelessness funding could not be fully accounted for because of fragmented data; it did not find $2.3B 'at risk'.

Source

LAHSA Commission, July 24, 2026; Alvarez & Marsal assessment (court filing, 2025)

Sep 30, 2026 · /lahsa-xray

It said

70,284 beds serve 73,040 people, so 'even at 100% utilization, 2,756 people have no bed'.

Correct

Most of those beds are permanent housing whose residents are not counted as homeless. Shelter beds alone number 25,386, of which 2,778 were empty on the night of the 2026 count.

Source

LAHSA 2026 Housing Inventory Count

Sep 30, 2026 · / (homepage), /payroll, /deep-dives

It said

Payroll records were labelled as employees (79,852 'City employees'), and 2025 averages included DWP's half-published payroll.

Correct

Headcount is full-time active employees (46,105 in 2025). Dollar figures leave out DWP until its 2025 payroll is fully published, and say so.

Source

City Controller payroll data

Sep 30, 2026 · /housing

It said

Year-over-year permit change compared nine months of 2026 with all of 2025.

Correct

Comparisons use complete years, or the same dates a year apart.

Source

LADBS building permits

Sep 30, 2026 · /deep-dives (Measure ULA)

It said

ULA applies above $5.3M and $10.6M; a statewide initiative to gut ULA was on the November 2026 ballot.

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The thresholds are $5.4M and $10.9M since July 1, 2026. The statewide initiative was withdrawn in June 2026 in exchange for ACA 22; the ULA item on the November 3 City ballot is Proposition TE (an exemption for homes damaged in the January 2025 fires).

Source

LAist; Hanson Bridgett ULA update

Sep 30, 2026 · /services

It said

311 was presented as an archive ending in March 2025.

Correct

The City moved 311 to a new system and publishes it under new datasets; the page now reads both and is current to the day.

Source

MyLA311 Cases 2026, data.lacity.org

Sep 30, 2026 · /about

It said

'No scraped data' and 'every figure on this site comes directly from city data'; the project was described as open source.

Correct

The page distinguishes live City datasets from figures entered by hand from documents, and lists those documents. The open-source claim was removed.

Source

LA Receipts

Sep 30, 2026 · /path-to-30k, homepage essay

It said

A housing-policy page and a ten-point homepage essay presented opinion as analysis.

Correct

Both were retired. /path-to-30k now redirects to the housing data.

Source

LA Receipts