Mayor Karen Bass will present the state of the city of Los Angeles on Monday after taking office in December 2022.
For city dwellers, homelessness and insecurity are two issues spiraling out of control.
Juan Manuel Reyes has lived in Los Angeles for 20 years and has seen various mayors, but he says the problem of insecurity has never worried him so much and that homelessness is serious.
“No more homeless. They’ve already lost that train from Los Angeles, there’s a lot of homeless there, a lot of dirt, it smells like urine and everything,” Reyes says.
For that reason, his eyes and those of the city will be on Mayor Karen Bass’s speech at 5:30 p.m., months after she took charge of a city struggling with serious problems such as thousands of people living in the street. .
Here are the topics Karen Bass will address this afternoon from Los Angeles City Hall:
- Public security.
- Public safety, such as strengthening the Los Angeles Police Department.
- Homelessness and housing crisis.
- Infrastructure.
In January, the Los Angeles City Council approved a $50 million emergency fund for the mayor to use at his discretion to address the city’s homelessness crisis.
With those funds, the mayor created a program called Inside Safe that aims to house 17,000 homeless people in her first year as mayor.
But for Angelenos like Amanda, who use public transportation daily, safety is also an important issue.
“There are still a lot of things that need to change,” he said.
The Mayor knows that this file is one of the greatest challenges of her mandate. “It’s definitely getting people out of tents, into housing and hotels, temporary housing and possibly permanent roofs. The good news is that we’ve seen people are ready to move out of those tents and I think we can say that we’ve successfully debunked the myth that homeless people are there because they want to be,” Bass said in an interview.
Bass recently announced that his administration is housing approximately 4,000 Angelenos through a collaborative effort, and of that number, 1,000 Angelenos are being housed through his Inside Safe initiative.