Breaking News: Mayor Karen Bass announces $250-million expansion of homelessness program
In her first State of the City speech, Mayor Karen Bass announced a dramatic expansion of her signature program to move homeless people indoors, while also pledging to transform the city into “a new L.A.”
Bass pledged to rebuild the depleted ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department, while also investing in a new Mayor’s Office of Community Safety, which will focus on unarmed responses to emergencies. The mayor’s speech touched on a laundry list of other topics, including climate change, paramedic response times, pothole repairs, vacancies in the city workforce and graffiti on freeways and in underpasses.
“Do you look over your shoulder when walking after dark? Do you feel pride in your local park? Do you have peace of mind because you can actually pay the rent? When the answer is yes, then we can say the state of our city is strong,” she said. “Any mayor is the most recognized political leader,” Sonenshein said. “But it’s really hard on some issues to get things done without the City Council, who elect the council president and, to some degree, the county supervisors whenever there’s social services involved, as would be the case on homelessness.”
She also spoke of her plans for the new Mayor’s Office of Community Safety, saying it will “build capacity for community intervention workers, social workers, clinical psychologists and other experts to respond when law enforcement is not required.”
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