LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced today that her Inside Safe program brought more Angelenos experiencing homelessness inside as the City was experiencing a rainstorm and continues to be in a Citywide flood watch. More than 20 Angelenos living near Echo Park Lake and living beneath an overpass in Silverlake were brought inside. Horizontal b-roll available here.
Since the start of the new year, more than 250 people have been brought inside through Inside Safe adding to more than 80 encampments that have been addressed by the program.
“We must do all that we can to bring Angelenos inside and these extreme weather conditions demand a new urgency,” said Mayor Karen Bass. “Today’s operations demonstrate just one part of the comprehensive strategy to end homelessness in our city and we will continue to work with our regional partners until no Angeleno is living on the streets.”
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.