LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on July 13 approved $527.1 million in funding for strategies to battle homelessness in fiscal year 2021-22, while expressing frustration over the rising numbers of people living on the street. Despite the massive inflow of cash from Measure H and dozens of carefully crafted initiatives that make up the county’s homeless initiative, visible encampments continue to grow and the situation on the street remains dire. Supervisor Kathryn Barger highlighted one sobering statistic, noting that 739 homeless people died in Los Angeles County in the first six months of 2021. That number, generated in response to Public Record Act requests from a KNX Newsradio reporter, amounts to a 20 percent increase over 2020 deaths. “This is a life-or-death situation, and it should encourage us to act with urgency and a new sense of direction,” Barger said. Efforts to count the homeless have …