Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wants to spend a record $1.3 billion on converting hotels and motels into housing for the city’s sprawling homeless population. Mayor Bass also wants to hire 1,000 police officers. To get this done, she has to convince a city council that’s far to the left of her.
She was elected in November and prioritized solving the city’s homeless population problem during her campaign. She plans to house them. It’s a laudable goal, but it seems impossible.
Shortly after her election, she set up a program called Inside Safe , which saw about 1,000 homeless people [out of 40,000] being housed in hotels and motels around the city.
Bass’ new proposal would see the city buying hotels outright to convert them into homeless shelters and treatment centers for substance abuse problems.Her ideas for straightening out LA don’t stop there.REFUNDING THE POLICEAfter Los Angeles officials defunded the police for […]
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