LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass today visited an Inside Safe operation that brought more than 45 Angelenos indoors and moved over 20 RVs from a long-standing encampment near five schools and a cemetery. This encampment has raised significant health and safety concerns among students, parents and community members in the area. Through Inside Safe, Angelenos from the encampment were brought inside and are receiving life-saving services and resources. B-roll from today’s operation is available here.
The encampment addressed today was located near Angelus Rosedale Cemetery which was the first cemetery in Los Angeles open to all races and creeds. The encampment also stretched alongside multiple schools including Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, Sophia T. Salvin Special Education Center, St Thomas the Apostle School, Loyola High School and West Adams High School. This operation continues the City’s commitment to restoring safe passage on sidewalks, protecting learning environments and providing unhoused Angelenos with housing options that prioritize care and dignity.
“By addressing both tents and RV’s on our streets, Inside Safe is bringing Angelenos inside while also ensuring that parents and children are able to safely walk to school,” said Mayor Karen Bass. “These schools and this cemetery are very important to this community and I want to thank Councilmember Hernandez for her continued advocacy and work to improve the lives of all Angelenos. We will not stop until every Angeleno has a safe place to call home.”
“Today’s Inside Safe operation is the result of months of outreach, partnership with local community members, and a deep commitment to meeting our unhoused neighbors with compassion and care,” said Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. “I’m grateful for Mayor Bass’s leadership and proud of our partnership that made it possible to bring dozens of Angelenos indoors this morning. I will continue to advance a Care-First agenda — one that centers dignity, prioritizes safety, and works to end the eviction-to-homelessness pipeline once and for all.”
Since the beginning of this year, more than 350 Angelenos have been moved inside through Inside Safe, contributing to the resolution of over 90 encampments. Since her first day in office when she declared an unprecedented emergency on the homelessness crisis, Mayor Karen Bass has driven change in how we address homelessness with new initiatives to bring people living in encampments inside. She has also worked to prevent people from losing their homes and to lock arms across all levels of government to move people inside and save lives and restore neighborhoods.
Key results from the 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count:
Homelessness in the City of Los Angeles is down for the first time in six years.
Unprecedented drop in street homelessness (10% decrease in the City of Los Angeles – the first double digit decrease in the last at least 9 years).
A decrease in makeshift shelters (38% decrease in the City of Los Angeles).
The number of people who moved into permanent housing is at an all time high.
Tent encampments have come down in every council district, and thousands more Angelenos came inside than in 2022 thanks to action locking arms with the City Council, County and LAHSA. The mayor has worked to improve services provided for unhoused Angelenos coming inside and has also been vocal about the need to make homelessness programs more cost effective as this urgent work continues.