LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced that two Inside Safe operations were conducted this week throughout the city. Tuesday’s operation in South L.A. addressed an RV encampment and Thursday’s operation in the San Fernando Valley cleared a sidewalk outside of a preschool and a center for adults with special needs. B-roll from both operations available here.
Since the start of the new year, nearly 300 Angelenos have been brought inside through Inside Safe adding to more than 85 encampments that have been addressed by the program.
“Inside Safe is addressing encampments of all sizes and shelters throughout the city,” said Mayor Karen Bass. “We are housing Angelenos while also making the sidewalk accessible for students and adults with special needs and addressing parked RVs. Homelessness is down for the first time in years and we must continue addressing this crisis with urgency.”
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.