When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass took office two years ago, her first action was declaring a state of emergency on homelessness. Bass was crisscrossing the city this week, highlighting her office’s work on the issue.
“Thanks to executive directive number one, wait times for affordable housing permit approvals have been slashed by 75% and more than 25,000 affordable housing units throughout the city are being expedited,” said Bass at a Monday news conference.
There were roughly 45,000 unhoused people, according to the city’s point-in-time homeless count in January of 2024…