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Report: Sequestration could mean $115M loss for Los Angeles
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The city of Los Angeles could take a $115 million hit if the federal government moves ahead with severe spending cuts in March.
The city of Los Angeles could experience a $115 million financial hit if Congress fails to reach a financial agreement that would avert sequestration this spring.
About $92 million of that would come from housing and housing assistance programs. Another $23 million would disappear from community development and public safety programs. This week’s Congressional action pushed sequestration – automatic spending cuts – to March 1.
“The impacts of sequestration to the city are very much a possibility if Congress fails to act on a plan to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion over 10 years by March 1, 2013,” City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana wrote in a report to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council.
The specific programs he listed in the report include:
- Section 8 Housing
- Community Development Block Grants
- Community Oriented Policing Services
- Byrne Justice Assistance Grants
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