Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says more than 4,000 homeless will be housed by next week under her new policies.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says that more than 4,000 homeless Angelenos will have been housed, including more than 1,000 through her Inside Safe initiative, by next week when she hits her 100-day mark in office. That figure, she believes, will keep her on track to house 17,000 homeless people by the end of her first year as mayor, as she had said she’d do while on the campaign trail.L.A.
“We have disproven that people do not want to leave the streets,” Bass said. “A lot of Angelenos believe that those people were there because they want to be there and they were never going to leave.”during her second week in office to quickly move unhoused Angelenos indoors. The vast majority are in temporary motel or hotel rooms, though the goal is to place them all in permanent housing while providing mental health services, substance abuse treatment or other support services.
As of Tuesday, Márquez said, 516 unhoused people had been moved indoors through Inside Safe, including 62 who have been placed in permanent supportive housing. City officials believe the number of people served by Inside Safe will about double by midweek next week as more program sites launch. Thirteen sites have launched throughout the city to date.
The mayor also said renting motel rooms is expensive and not sustainable. That’s why her administration is looking at purchasing motels and hotels, which her aides believe will be more cost effective in the long run.in emergency funding that the Los Angeles City Council agreed to give to Bass in January to combat homelessness, the mayor reported that $4.
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