Group Sues Los Angeles Mayor Over Homelessness Emergency Orders

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

A nonprofit group is suing Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for enacting emergency powers to address the city’s homeless crisis.

Fix The City, a government accountability group, filed the lawsuit Sept. 25 in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging the city’s adoption July 5 of Ms. Bass’s emergency order on homelessness, which allowed her to declare a local emergency.