L.A. Mayor Karen Bass launches her “Inside Safe” initiative aimed at dramatically reducing street homelessness.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Wednesday, Dec. 21, launched her “Inside Safe” initiative to move people living in tents and homeless encampments off the streets and indoors and to keep such encampments from popping up again.
“People should not be left to live and die on the streets because the city isn’t giving them someplace to go,” the mayor said at a news conference at The People Concern, a social service agency in Central L.A. where she signed an executive directive to launch the Inside Safe Initiative Until more permanent housing units become available – which Bass said should not take more than a year – the mayor insisted that those facing homelessness will receive immediate “quality” housing.
In response to a question about whether police would be called upon to relocate people under the Inside Safe initiative, Bass said her program is not intended as a punitive measure against those living on the streets and that Inside Safe’s approach is different from Municipal Code 41.18, the anti-camping ordinance passed by the City Council that allows homeless encampment sweeps.
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