To Date, Mayor Bass’ Inside Safe Team Has Brought More than 6,000 People Inside
LOS ANGELES – Twenty-four Angelenos experiencing homelessness were brought into safe, stable housing on Thursday, including a number of seniors, as Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe team completed its 142nd operation between Irolo and 11th Street at the border of Koreatown and Pico-Union. To date, Inside Safe has brought more than 6,000 unhoused Angelenos inside.
"Life on the street forces people into survival mode, where nothing matters except getting through the day. Once they're indoors, they can finally accept care, connect with services, and get back on their feet with dignity,” said Mayor Bass. “I want to thank Councilmember Heather Hutt for her partnership. We will continue working every day to bring more Angelenos indoors, address longstanding encampments, and build the affordable housing that L.A. needs to end street homelessness."
During every operation, the Inside Safe team assesses each person's needs – including older Angelenos and those with pets – to connect them with the right resources.
In addition to resolving longstanding encampments and getting people into interim housing, Mayor Bass is working to prevent individuals and families from becoming unhoused in the first place and to rapidly accelerate the building of affordable housing. This week, Mayor Bass announced that her administration has successfully built more than 10,000 units of affordable housing across Los Angeles – four times more affordable housing units built yearly compared to the prior five years. Since taking office, Mayor Bass has used her executive power to cut red tape and eliminate the bureaucratic barriers that have slowed housing production in Los Angeles for decades, including:
Signing Executive Directive 1 during her first week in office to slash red tape and streamline the approval of 100% affordable housing. In December 2025, the City Council voted unanimously in favor of making the directive a permanent city ordinance. Currently, more than 47,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline.
Implementing the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP), the largest local rezoning program in modern history that creates the capacity for half a million new homes and opens up more of the city to housing – along major corridors, near transit, and in neighborhoods where people already live and work.
Signing into law the first update to Los Angeles’ Rent Stabilization Ordinance in 40 years.
Expanding the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance citywide to convert vacant office buildings and parking lots into housing, which could create more than 43,000 new homes across the city.
Implementing a research-proven eviction and homelessness prevention program through the Mayor’s Fund.
Helping more than 1,000 veterans and their families secure permanent housing through her House Our Vets initiative.
Signing Executive Directive 19 to modernize and streamline how the City reviews and processes building applications, responding directly to the barriers that applicants, developers, and contractors have identified as impediments to building in Los Angeles.