Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ strategy — to move thousands of people into motels as a stopgap measure while the city works out a long-term fix — is being closely watched by elected officials from Sacramento to Washington, D.C.
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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