LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced an Inside Safe operation on Hollywood Boulevard in partnership with Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez and Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath. More than 35 Angelenos moved off the street and were brought inside from this week’s operation. Today’s operation follows an earlier effort in the San Fernando Valley on Tuesday that brought more people inside. Click here for photos and b-roll of today's operation.
“Our work to bring more people inside is even more urgent during these hot summer months when risks of heat exposure increase. People are safer when they are inside and no longer living on the streets,” said Mayor Karen Bass. “We are scaling our efforts and working to lock arms with all 88 cities in the county to work in partnership and collaborate to house people across multiple jurisdictions. We are continuing to move L.A. in a new direction.”
“Once again, Los Angeles County joins Mayor Bass and Councilmember Soto-Martínez in moving with absolute urgency to support our unhoused community,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath, Third District. “Our partnership in unified emergency response housed nearly 28,000 people last year across the County—more than any other year. The momentum continues in Hollywood where our Department of Mental Health and Homeless Initiative are part of today's operation, with countless lives improved. Combined with the County’s Pathway Home program, Inside Safe brings unprecedented partnership and meaningful results to encampment resolution in Los Angeles—and we are just getting started.”
“This was the largest single encampment in Hollywood, and now the people who were living there are able to sleep safely and are on the pathway to permanent housing,” said Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez. “Our collaboration with Mayor Bass and the community is proving that we can turn around the homelessness crisis and transform Hollywood.”
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.