Karen Bass’ mission: Get 17,000 people off the streets of Los Angeles in a year

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks at the podium at the Lorena Plaza affordable housing project construction site where she signed an affordable housing executive directive on December 16, 2022. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES — Karen Bass has pledged to tackle the homelessness problem here by getting 17,000 people off the streets during her first year in office. But her success as mayor will depend on what happens after that.

Jennifer Shurley, who has been in and out of homelessness for years and is now staying at a Venice motel, said she has watched people fall out of the shelter system. Of the 230,000 unsheltered homeless people across the U.S., one in five is in Los Angeles County — and most live in the city of Los Angeles.

That strategy has so far targeted two large encampments that have been sources of frustration for years, including the Venice location where Shurley lived. The program recently expanded to South Los Angeles and an area near Culver City, and Bass said she hopes to scale it up over the next month. So far Bass has avoided deploying police to forcibly remove people and their belongings, perhaps consideringShurley, who said she first experienced homelessness as a Colorado teenager fleeing an abusive relationship, is theagainst the city of Boulder, where she was ticketed multiple times for violating a ban on camping in public places.

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It’s been tried before, All hotels had to Remodel after the homeless left.

Tent cities in the desert on BLM land.

The Woke Joke Strick's Again!

Ask NYC how that is going to work.

We are doomed in Southern California with these Leftist like Newsom in charge letting criminals go and Sanctuary Cities. Thank goodness our company moved out of downtown Los Angeles, what a mess, created and perpetuated by Leftist.

How is this 'fixing' a fucking thing?

And replace them with a hundred thousand foreign nationals of unknown origin, health or criminal status.

Long term fix. What a joke. The only long term fix that has a chance is stopping the flood over the border.

It’s being done in my part of NY. Amazing how fast the places are wrecked and become eyesores

There’s enough existing housing. It just needs to be claimed by eminent domain while owners with vacant units should be penalized for sitting on them.

No success last time it was tried…..free vaca to Cali.

Someone ought to tell King Charles that this is how it's done.

It's also being closely watched by hotel owners.

Massachusetts did this for years. Gov. Charlie Baker ended the program.

Note to self… do NOT stay in a hotel in Los Angeles.

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