Newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is making good on her promise to help move some 41,000 homeless people from encampments into temporary shelters and supportive housing through her Safe Inside Initiative, which seeks to connect unsheltered people to temporary housing and motel vouchers.
This week, Bass targeted homeless hotspots in South LA and the Westside, conducting one-on-one outreach to help get them into temporary housing.
“As we scale up our operation, we are going to be able to house more and more Angelenos, and I look forward to continuing that work,” she said in a Feb. 1 statement.
The initiative was started during Bass’s first week in office following her declaration of a local state of emergency over homelessness….