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Los Angeles City Council Approves Only $29 Million Of $46 Million Requested Inside Safe Homeless Funding

April 3, 2025 6:03 pmApril 3, 2025 6:03 pm

In a meeting earlier this week, the Los Angeles City Council voted to give the Inside Safe homeless program, Mayor Karen Bass’ signature homeless initiative that places many in hotels and motels, only $29.1 million of the Bass Administration’s requested...

LA City Council Approves Evaluation of Creating a Department Of Homelessness

May 2, 2024 2:45 amMay 2, 2024 2:46 am

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously 13-0 to begin evaluating the creation of a Department of Homelessness on Tuesday, to better centralize overseeing homeless initiatives in the city. In recent years, the homeless situation in LA and LA County...

LA Mayor Bass’ Newly Touted Homeless Measures Face Backlash

April 17, 2024 5:57 pmApril 17, 2024 5:57 pm

Backlash against Mayor Karen Bass’ Monday State of the City Address continued on Wednesday, with many residents and analysts charging that her new plans to alleviate homelessness would only result in more failure. Bass’s series of failed homeless initiatives dates...

Los Angeles City Council Considers Creating Department Of Homelessness

March 19, 2024 2:30 amMarch 19, 2024 2:31 am

At a Los Angeles City Council meeting on Monday, City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez pushed for the creation of a Department of Homelessness to help streamline the city’s current patchwork of homeless programs and groups under the direction of one department....

2024 Los Angeles Official Homeless Count Begins

January 25, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 25, 2024 2:31 am

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) began their 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. The count is expected to not just show if the number of homeless people increased in both Los Angeles County and the city of L.A....

Homeless In Karen Bass’ Los Angeles

December 16, 2023 2:30 amDecember 16, 2023 2:31 am

This week, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass celebrated her first year in office, and highlighted the “success” of her Inside Safe project. However, as the Globe and other outlets have pointed out, her program has been far from a success,...

LA Mayor Karen Bass Celebrates One Year In Office Despite Homeless Program Failures

December 13, 2023 2:30 amDecember 15, 2023 6:12 am

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass celebrated one year in office on Tuesday, with many Angelinos reflecting negatively because of her failure to improve the growing homeless problem in the city. In November 2022, Bass narrowly defeated developer Rick Caruso and...