Mayor Bass marks two year anniversary today following citywide tour highlighting progress providing more services to Angelenos, supporting businesses, protecting the climate and more
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass today highlighted results to reduce homelessness and homicides, create jobs, support businesses, combat climate change, and better deliver city services and prepare for the World Cup, Olympic and Paralympic Games and other major events:
Homelessness and Housing: Unhoused Angelenos are coming inside at an unprecedented rate and more housing is being built every day.
More than 23,000 Angelenos moved into temporary housing – thousands more than the year before Mayor Bass took office.
Permanent housing move-ins have nearly doubled compared to 2022.
A first-of-its-kind partnership was launched to save taxpayers millions and open housing faster.
Project application wait times dropped by 75% following the streamlining of city processes. More than 25,000 units of affordable housing are being accelerated.
Regulatory fixes and the elimination of red tape have directly contributed to more than 1,000 Angelenos coming inside this year.
Making Los Angeles Safer: Urgent work continues as City Hall moves to support LAPD, LAFD and implement community-based proven strategies to combat crime.
LAPD has reported a more than 25% drop in homicides and victims shot citywide along with a more than 50% decrease in gang-related homicides following LAPD-led initiatives and community-based strategies to make Los Angeles safer.
Hundreds of arrests have been made and over $66 million in stolen merchandise has been recovered by the Organized Retail Crime Task Force to address retail theft in Los Angeles.
The LAPD experienced a four-year-high of applications.
LAFD’s health and safety response capability was expanded through the addition of Fast Response Vehicles to free up larger trucks and engines to respond to larger fires.
LAFD always stands at the ready to support the region as exemplified today responding to the Franklin Fire in Malibu and deploying nationwide to Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
The Mayor and Chief McDonnell pledged continued action in the new year to prioritize safety including burglaries, motor vehicle thefts and robberies continue.
Supporting Our Business Community: Thousands of businesses have been supported with resources as well as assistance through streamlined processes and focused customer service:
The Al Fresco Outdoor Dining Program application has been extended for business owners with a temporary permit.
Businesses secured more than $18 million in financial assistance with help from the CIty.
More than 5,000 entrepreneurs and small business owners attended City Small Business Summits to access resources, information and support to succeed.
The review of more than 2,000 mixed-income housing units are being streamlined.
New City policies were adopted to spur more than 400,000 units of new housing and adaptive reuse, as well as commercial development in Downtown L.A., Hollywood and across the city.
Combatting Climate Change: We are building a greener Los Angeles and a more sustainable city:
The City of L.A. reached its goal set in 2019 of creating more than 100,000 green jobs by the end of 2025 more than one year early.
Los Angeles has the most EV charging stations in the country. Nearly 16,000 EV chargers have been installed over the past two years, a 77% increase in the city’s available charging infrastructure since Mayor Bass took office.
250,000 homes in Los Angeles are now powered by clean energy through the Eland Solar & Storage Center, a large-scale solar installation and battery storage system that opened this year.
City Services: More city services have been completed than last year and momentum to clean Los Angeles continues:
Tens of thousands more city services were delivered this year than 2023 and 2022.
Metro ridership has increased every single month the Mayor has served in office.
Record crossing guard deployment, 250 speed humps, 450 School Slow Zones, and more than 180 quick build intersection improvements have been installed near schools in the city.
More than 200 solar street lights were installed in the Valley, along the L.A. River and in other neighborhoods throughout L.A.
Today, December 12, marks two years since Mayor Bass was sworn into office. Over the last week, Mayor Bass made the above announcements while visiting Koreatown, Downtown L.A., Mid City, Watts and Sylmar to highlight how her administration has made change and delivered the following results.