Category: LA Mayor Karen Bass

California’s Homeless Crisis Getting Worse after State Spends Billions in an Attempt to Improve Conditions

July 12, 2023
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California’s homeless crisis is getting worse as the state has spent $17.5 billion in an attempt to decrease the state’s homeless population over the past four years, as the state’s homeless population has grown. Federal data from 2018 to 2022 shows the increase of  Americans living outside on the streets in California, which has one of…

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Repairs LA Pothole After Waiting Weeks for the City

April 12, 2023
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Arnold Schwarzenegger took matters into his own hands and repaired a pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, after waiting weeks for the city to respond to his request for repairs. The frustrated actor and former California governor posted a video on his Twitter Tuesday of him and a helper using packaged concrete to repair the…

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Karen Bass: Encampments in LA Should Be ‘Significantly Down’ in 4 Years

December 19, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Dec. 18 that she believes 95 percent of the approximately 40,000 homeless people in the city would accept housing if it’s offered to them, and said she hopes that encampments will be “significantly down, if not eliminated” in four years. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Bass, who…

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LA Mayor Karen Bass Declares State of Emergency on Homelessness

December 12, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Karen Bass, in her first official act as mayor of Los Angeles, declared a state of emergency on homelessness Dec. 12 in an effort to underscore the severity of the housing crisis in the nation’s second-largest city. Bass signed the declaration inside the city’s Emergency Operations Center in a room designated as the “United…

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