“We were dealing with homelessness 30 years ago, but it was really only in two parts of town,” Karen Bass, the new mayor of L.A., says. “Now it’s all over the city.” Read the full interview:
in 2020, her past resurfaced as a liability, including several trips that she made to Cuba, starting at the age of nineteen, in the nineteen-seventies.
You had a safe seat in Congress and seniority that gave you influence in Washington, including being the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Why did you decide to come back to Los Angeles to run for mayor? The most important thing to do is to get people out of tents, because that is how Angelenos experience homelessness. Whether you are in a tent or you’re impacted by the tent, the tent is the focal point. If I dedicated all of my time to building half a million units of housing but there were still tents, people would have no faith that we were getting anything done.
You also recently passed an order for the city to look at where it might be able to build housing on city-owned land. I don’t see a motel being permanent housing. There are no kitchens. And tiny homes, for example, that’s very temporary. There are no bathrooms. I think everybody needs to have a bathroom and a kitchen. So some of it is designed to be temporary.When you talk about my goal of seventeen thousand, part of that goal is Inside Safe, another part is expediting housing that’s under way, and the other part of it is getting people in beds in houses that are already built.
So, it is a problem for everyone. This is not the problem of the unhoused, right? This is the problem of all Angelenos. And the only solution to that problem is for there to be building of all types of housing. Exactly. So where are you at with police right now? Three people were killed in police encounters at the very beginning of the year—So how do we improve what everybody knows is a kind of complicated relationship between the residents of L.A. and their police force?
There is a mental-health team, but there’s not enough of them. They don’t even work on weekends or at night. If we just declare an alternative response and we don’t have the systems in place, then I’m not sure what we’re accomplishing. To do it properly would take a tremendous amount of resources. The union laid out, I think, twenty-eight different instances of what they would not respond to anymore.saying racist things.
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