Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Bass, who declared a state of emergency on homelessness on her first day in office, was asked how her declaration would differ from a similar …
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said on Sunday, Dec. 18, that she believes 95% of the approximately 40,000 homeless people in the city would accept housing if it’s offered to them, and said she hopes that encampments will be “significantly down, if not eliminated” in four years.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Bass, who declared a state of emergency on homelessness on her first day in office, was asked how her declaration would differ from a similar action taken by former Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2015. “It’s not just about the money — of course money is needed — but it’s really about the arcane bureaucratic process. You talk to developers and it’s just so difficult to get anything done,” Bass said, citing a news conference she recently held at a housing project where the builder had been working for 16 years.
“It’s about bursting past the bureaucratic maze and developers having no idea when approvals will be done, so now I’m requiring that approvals and the process be moved within 30 to 60 days,” she added.“What we have found — and the community organizations that we’re bringing in to do this work — is that you can get 95% of the people housed,” she said. “People will go. It take a awhile, you have to do outreach.
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