Va Lecia Adams Kellum, left, president and chief executive of St. Joseph Center, with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at a news conference in December.
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s new chief executive is no stranger to the often contentious and closely watched efforts to remove tents from public spaces and get homeless people indoors.
She’s managed and run many of them.
Va Lecia Adams Kellum will now take on a bigger challenge: Attempting to chart a path for the much maligned joint-powers authority, whose mission and management has been under the microscope in recent years. Adams Kellum’s appointment was approved by the agency’s board of commissioners, which is made up of people appointed by elected officials from the city and county.
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