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- Mayor Bass is moving Los Angeles forward with an urgent and strategic approach to confronting the homelessness crisis, which includes declaring a state of emergency, taking action to dramatically accelerate and lower the cost of building affordable and temporary housing, and moving to maximize the use of City-owned property for temporary and permanent housing.
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May 19, 2023 · The new mayor of the city of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, plans to spend a record $1.3 billion addressing homelessness in the coming fiscal year. But what can all that money buy? And will it...
- Introduction
- Leadership & Accountability
- Build More Temporary Housing
- Build More Affordable and Permanent Supportive Housing
- Transition Individuals from The Streets to Housing and Services
- Lead on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Services
- Prevent Homelessness and Keep Our Neighbors Housed
Karen Bass is running for Mayor to lead Los Angeles through this time of crisis – a time when 40,000 Angelenos go to sleep every night without a roof over their heads and nearly four unhoused Angelenos die every day. Homelessness is a crisis for the unhoused and for every one of our neighborhoods. It’s a crisis on every level — public health, publi...
Bass understands that only the Mayor of Los Angeles can command the public attention and bully pulpit necessary to hold government accountable and force bureaucracies to work together and get things done. She will be out front on our homelessness crisis and will hold every level of government accountable while building productive partnerships and c...
Temporary housing is not the solution to homelessness but it is critically needed to help get people off the streets as soon as possible, and provide a bridge to permanent housing. That’s why as Mayor, Bass will seek community input and get more temporary housing up and running as quickly as possible. Master inventories of land including city-owned...
While we deal with the immediate crisis at hand, we must be relentless when it comes to building more affordable and permanent supportive housing if we want to solve this crisis. In meeting with developers and providers alike across the city, Bass consistently hears stories of red tape, and barriers we’ve erected over time that drag out projects an...
As part of her coordinated emergency response to homelessness, Bass will deploy trained neighborhood service teams across Los Angeles – because the only way to successfully transition individuals from the streets to housing and services is through persistent on-the-ground engagement and outreach. Currently, we have a patchwork of city, county, and ...
Nearly fifty percent of unsheltered individuals are either suffering from severe mental illness or substance abuse. Meanwhile, our mental health and substance abuse systems have been decimated, the county is short thousands of beds, and a maze of bureaucratic hurdles prevents progress in the same way it does for housing. Bass has been a leader in t...
In addition to the 40,000 unhoused Angelenos, another 352,000 Angelenos are in abject poverty at risk of becoming homeless. On average, every day in Los Angeles, 207 people find their way into housing while another 227 fall into homelessness. Providers are doing herculean work but the forces leading people into homelessness are just too powerfu...
Apr 20, 2023 · On Tuesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced that $1.3 billion of her $13 billion proposed budget will go to address homelessness. She called the amount to tackle the homelessness...
Mar 19, 2023 · By Julia Wick Staff Writer. March 19, 2023 3 AM PT. On the eve of her 100th day in office, Mayor Karen Bass enjoys strong approval ratings among Angelenos — a reservoir of goodwill that will be...
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Apr 18, 2023 · Bass said she intends to propose $250 million for Inside Safe, which has been moving unhoused residents off sidewalks and into hotel and motel rooms, as part of a $1.3-billion investment in...
Dec 12, 2022 · Inside Safe. Mayor Bass is moving Los Angeles forward with an urgent and strategic approach to confronting the homelessness crisis, which includes declaring a state of emergency, taking action to dramatically accelerate and lower the cost of building affordable and temporary housing, and moving to maximize the use of City-owned property for ...
Apr 18, 2023 · A day after Mayor Karen Bass gave her first State of the City Address she unveiled a nearly $13 billion spending plan proposed to meet many of the goals she outlined in the speech, including...
