Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivers her State of the City address at Los Angeles City Hall on Monday.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
In her first State of the City speech, Mayor Karen Bass announced a dramatic expansion of her signature program to move homeless people indoors, while also pledging to create “a new L.A.”
Bass said she intends to propose $250 million for Inside Safe, which has been moving unhoused residents off sidewalks and into hotel and motel rooms, as part of a $1.3-billion investment in housing and homelessness programs — an amount she called “unprecedented.”
The mayor’s full spending plan, which will cover the fiscal year that starts July 1 and still requires City Council approval, will be unveiled Tuesday morning.
In the four months since she took office, Bass has at times seemed like a single-issue mayor, focusing almost exclusively on homelessness. Monday’s speech foregrounded those efforts, while turning attention toward public safety and other topics.
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