Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appeared on 'Meet the Press' Sunday, saying she hopes homeless encampments will be 'significantly down, if not eliminated' in the next four years.
"It's not just about the money — of course money is needed — but it's really about the arcane bureaucratic process. You talk to developers and it's just so difficult to get anything done," Bass said, citing a news conference she recently held at a housing project where the builder had been working for 16 years.
"It's about bursting past the bureaucratic maze and developers having no idea when approvals will be done, so now I'm requiring that approvals and the process be moved within 30 to 60 days," she added."What we have found — and the community organizations that we're bringing in to do this work — is that you can get 95% of the people housed," she said. "People will go. It takes a awhile, you have to do outreach. ...
Bass also said she plans to launch the "Inside Safe" program Tuesday, which will use master leasing with motels near encampments to place unhoused people."A fair way to judge it would be encampments should be significantly down, if not eliminated, and there should be housing being built, underway, at a much more rapid pace, and there should not be 40,000 people who are unhoused, that's for sure," Bass said.
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