LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced the latest Inside Safe response effort, occurring across the City and bringing more than 65 Angelenos inside. Response efforts are coordinated and executed by the Inside Safe Field Intervention Team who monitors all previous operation sites, builds relationships with unhoused Angelenos and houses them with supportive services when resources align. Unhoused Angelenos who had been living on the streets were brought inside from Echo Park, Hollywood, South L.A., Baldwin Hills, Canoga Park, Reseda, North Hills, Westlake and the Miracle Mile (Council Districts 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13). B-roll is available here.
“For the first time in City history, Los Angeles has reported a decrease in homelessness two years in a row – and our work continues,” said Mayor Karen Bass. “This week, Inside Safe brought Angelenos inside from more than half of the City’s Council Districts. Through collaboration, we are rejecting the status quo, acting with urgency and we will not stop until all unhoused Angelenos are inside safe.”
This effort comes after the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released the results of the 2025 Annual Homeless Count showing for the first time a second consecutive year of decline in the number of people experiencing homelessness. The 2025 Count, designed by University of Southern California and conducted in alignment with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development standards, reports a 17.5% decrease in street homelessness since before Mayor Bass took office.
These results follow Mayor Bass’ unprecedented efforts to implement a comprehensive strategy that confronts street homelessness. The status quo had been to leave people on the street until permanent housing was completed, which resulted in Angelenos languishing on the street with no end in sight. Mayor Bass rejected that approach and has focused on ending the humanitarian crisis on the street while expediting the building of permanent housing.
This year’s Point in Time Count results show:
Homelessness reported to have declined for two years in a row in L.A. for the first time.
Street homelessness reduced by 17.5% since Mayor Bass took office in December of 2022. This is the largest decrease over two years since the Point in Time Count began in 2005.
The number of makeshift shelters, tents, cars, vans and RVs declined for a second time in a row, down 13.5%.
Permanent housing placements in Los Angeles City are at an all-time high.
Tent encampments have come down in every council district, and thousands more Angelenos have come inside than the year before Mayor Bass took office thanks to action locking arms with the City Council, County and LAHSA. Mayor Bass 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.