Los Angeles Mayor Targets South LA and Westside to Bring Homeless Indoors

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks at the podium at the Lorena Plaza affordable housing project site where she signed an affordable housing executive directive in Los Angeles on Dec. 16, 2022. Mario Tama/Getty Images

Newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is making good on her promise to help move roughly 41,000 homeless people from encampments into temporary shelters and supportive housing through her Inside Safe Initiative, which seeks to connect unsheltered people to temporary housing and motel vouchers.

Last week, Bass targeted homeless hotspots in South Los Angeles and the Westside, conducting one-on-one outreach to help get them into temporary housing.