LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program brought dozens of people experiencing homelessness into housing today who had been living in a large encampment near businesses and residences in South Los Angeles. Inside Safe treats encampments as whole communities, offering housing and supportive services to all those living in the encampment. This comprehensive strategy saves lives and prevents encampments from returning. Photos and b-roll available here.
“The streets are not waiting rooms, and we must continue to do all we can to help people come inside and be connected with housing, services and support,” said Mayor Bass.
Inside Safe has cleared more than 80 encampments. More than 200 people have come inside through Inside Safe thus far in 2025. The Inside Safe Field Intervention Team will monitor this location and all previous Inside Safe locations, building relationships with unhoused Angelenos who come to past Inside Safe operation sites and housing them with supportive services.
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.