Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Declares State of Emergency on Homelessness

Karen Bass speaks in front of the Los Angeles City Council at her mayoral inauguration ceremony at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles on Dec. 11, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—Newly inaugurated Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, in her first order of business, on Dec. 12 declared a state of emergency on homelessness in the city.

Bass spent her first morning in the office meeting with various city department heads, then signed the declaration inside the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in a room designated as the “United Homelessness Response Center.”