LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced another Inside Safe operation today near Downtown L.A.’s entertainment center in partnership with Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez and Councilmember Kevin de León. The operation brought more than 30 Angelenos inside from three large encampment areas near the L.A. LIVE complex in Downtown and near the 110 Freeway on and offramps. The operation also cleared many tons of debris. Click here for photos and b-roll of today's operation.
Today’s Inside Safe operation follows two operations last week where the Mayor’s Office housed Angelenos living in tent encampments in the Koreatown and Westlake communities. More than 3,000 Angelenos have come inside thus far through Inside Safe and homelessness has decreased in Los Angeles for the first time in years.
“No Angeleno should live outside under a freeway and today we helped more than 30 people come off the streets and into safety,” said Mayor Bass. “This urgent work will continue and we will continue saving lives.”
"Once again, l'm pleased to collaborate with Mayor Bass for this transformative Inside Safe housing operation and expand on the work we're doing to grant more of our unhoused neighbors the dignity of a secure place to live,” said Councilmember Kevin de León. “This effort is also enhancing the safety and unobstructed accessibility of our community sidewalks. The results are a clear indicator of the progress we're making in tackling the homelessness crisis."
“Today’s Inside Safe operation once again disproves the myth of service resistance,” said Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. “When we meet people with a Care First approach and the housing they need, we can bring people indoors and off the streets for good. I appreciate Mayor Bass for her leadership as we work together to end the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles.”
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.