Mayor Bass Continues Confronting Homelessness as Inside Safe Brings People Inside From Encampment Along Railroad Tracks

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LOS ANGELES - Continuing her urgent work confronting the homelessness crisis, Mayor Karen Bass announced that Inside Safebrought nearly 60 Angelenos insidefrom encampments across the City this week, including an encampment in Northridge in the San Fernando Valley today. This encampment ran alongside railroad tracks, with some reporting having lived there for years. On Tuesday, 40 people came insidefrom a longstanding encampment in South L.A. in partnership with Council District 8 and Governor Newsom's State Action for Facilitation on Encampments (SAFE) Task Force.

B-roll of the operation is available here.

"Whether it's on train tracks or next to freeways, the City of Los Angeles is working to ensure that we are confronting the homelessness crisis in every part of our city," said Mayor Karen Bass."Through coordination with partners, we are coming together to provide life-saving services. We will not stop."

"The encampment along the railroad tracks was not only unsafe for those living there, but it also created real concerns for the families and businesses nearby," said Councilmember John Lee. "Our community deserves to feel safewalking, driving, and working in their own neighborhoods. By bringing people indoorsand connecting them to services we are making our neighborhoods safer while ensuring that our most vulnerable neighbors have a path toward housing and stability."

On her first day in office, Mayor Bass declared a state of emergency to urgently get people off the streets. Her initiative Inside Safehas brought thousands of people insideand resolved more than 100 often entrenched and longstanding encampments in every Council District in the city. By breaking with the status quo, Mayor Bass has spearheaded needed policy changes that are preventing people from being housed, is accelerating the building of more than 30,000 units of affordable housing, advanced innovating housing solutions through LA4LA and is keeping people from falling into homelessness in the first place through a research-proven anti-eviction program led by the Mayor's Fund.

This year's Point in Time Count results show:

• Homelessness reported to have declined for two years in a row in L.A. for the first time.

• Street homelessness reduced by 17.5% since Mayor Bass took office in December of 2022. This is the largest decrease over two years since the Point in Time Count began in 2005.

• The number of makeshift shelters, tents, cars, vans and RVs declined for a second time in a row, down 13.5%.

• Permanent housing placements in Los Angeles City are at an all-time high.

Mayor Bass' progress to save lives and reduce homelessness is measurable and visible. Earlier this month, the RAND Corporation released its annual report showing a 49% decline in the number of people experiencing street homelessness in Hollywood from last year to the year prior, drawing a connection to the work of Mayor Bass' Inside Safeprogram. The report also showed a decrease in Venice. Inside Safehas conducted more than a dozen operations in the Hollywood area and monitors all locations to continue bringing people insidefrom those sites. In 2024, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released the results showing the first decrease in homelessness in Los Angeles City for the first time in years - bucking nationwide and statewide trends.