The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a new county department for regional homeless services, stripping hundreds of millions in funding from a joint city-county agency that's faced audits criticizing its handling of taxpayers' money.

The seismic move comes despite objections from several Los Angeles City Councilmembers who said the process of creating a county department that moves taxpayer funds from the Los Angeles Homeless

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has voted to pull funding from the regional agency tasked with combating the homelessness crisis and will instead create a new countywide department to