receivership
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While denying a 2025 motion to place the city’s homeless programs in receivership, Carter ordered a review of the data being produced by the city on its homeless housing and encampment goals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The firm has been placed in a receivership and is unwinding what has been described as a tangled and only partially documented web of holdings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Almario also supports receivership for the juvenile system as well as greater oversight over spending on homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
In 2020 the building was placed into receivership as it was undergoing a multi-million renovation.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
On the night of Thursday, May 5, officials of the National Cordage Company, a trust that controlled 80 percent of America’s rope production, placed itself in receivership.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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