LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass today released her proposed budget for the Fiscal Year 2026-2027. This budget is focused on continuing Mayor Bass’ work that is changing L.A. and reversing longstanding trends by reducing homelessness, building more housing, hiring more officers and investing in basic city services. Strong revenue growth undergirds this budget and reflects better confidence in our city and Mayor Bass’ work to bolster our local economy.
Earlier today, Mayor Bass reported on the State of the City. See video here. The full budget will be released at 12:00 PM and will be available here. Watch the livestream here.
“We’ve worked hard to change L.A.’s direction on homelessness, public safety and basic city services, and this budget builds on that work so we can keep making progress,” Mayor Bass said.
Mayor Bass’ $14.85 billion balanced budget projects increased property, business, sales, and utility tax revenues, promotes greater efficiency in City services, and maximizes the use of special funds and new revenue enhancements. It prioritizes the following:
Continuing to Drive Down Homelessness
Maintaining Inside Safe, all interim housing beds and street level services to continue Mayor Bass’ work that has brought street homeless down by nearly 18 percent.
Increasing funding to address RV encampments.
Increasing funding for oversight, transparency, and accountability.
Bolstering Public Safety
Increasing police hiring to 510 new officers. This represents a target of 8,555 officers this year and the maintaining of Mayor Bass’ long-term goal of 9,500 officers.
Training in use-of-force, de-escalation and mental health intervention.
Mayor Bass is also ensuring that LAPD funding is used strategically and making an impact in the communities that need it most through:
Patrols in Downtown L.A. to address retail theft and street takeovers.
A dedicated task force to combat copper wire theft.
A task force to go after bad actors involved in human trafficking.
Security surrounding interim housing shelters.
Maintaining funding for LAFD ahead of the Sales Tax Measure, investing in equipment, including a helicopter and vehicles.
Maintaining deployment of 500 Crossing Guards.
Crime Prevention
Sustaining CIRCLE, UMCR, and GRYD services and citywide coverage for civilian crisis response.
Expanding the Safe Passage program to help children get to and from school safely and protect them from gang violence.
Investing in Infrastructure and Basic City Services
Increasing funding for street and sidewalk repair, street sweeping, bulky item pick up, and dedicated illegal dumping enforcement throughout the city.
Increasing funding to achieve 700 lane miles of street will be repaired through improvements such as resurfacing, slurry, or large asphalt repairs.
Increasing funding by 45% for the assessment and installation of curb ramps across the city.
The recently launched Street Lights Initiative will repair and replace up to 60,000 street lights citywide over the next two years at no impact to City’s General Fund. Implementation of Street Light Assessment which will repair 220,000 lights citywide.
The City Council will now consider Mayor Bass’ budget proposal.