Mayor Bass’ Inside Safe Leads 140th Operation, Housing Nearly 20 People on the Westside

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LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass announced that her Inside Safe team completed its 140th operation yesterday in Palms, bringing nearly 20 Angelenos experiencing homelessness into safe, stable housing. To date, Inside Safe has brought more than 6,000 unhoused Angelenos inside. Photos and b-roll available here.

"Inside Safe has brought thousands of unhoused Angelenos across the city into safe, stable housing, and we're not slowing down," said Mayor Bass. "Resolving this longstanding encampment at the intersection of Venice and Glendon returns the sidewalk to Palms families and business owners while getting unhoused Angelenos off the streets. I want to thank Councilmember Yaroslavsky for her partnership. We will continue working every day to bring more Angelenos indoors, address longstanding encampments, and build the affordable housing that L.A. needs to end street homelessness."

"Since I took office, we've reduced unsheltered homelessness by 22 percent in Council District 5 and resolved every major encampment in the district," said Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky. "We've done it by pairing each resolution with an offer of housing, then staying engaged through continued outreach and follow-up to keep encampments from returning. I'm grateful to Mayor Bass and our partners for bringing this approach to Venice and Glendon and helping 19 people move indoors."

Angelenos who were housed received onsite medical support and bags filled with personal care items donated by volunteers from Housing MV, a Mar Vista-based organization dedicated to delivering better living conditions to the unhoused. Additionally, LAHSA provided shelter to those living in encampments outside the local area to help them escape the extreme heat.

In addition to resolving longstanding encampments and getting people into interim housing, Mayor Bass is working to prevent individuals and families from becoming unhoused in the first place and to reverse decades of inaction to rapidly accelerate the building of affordable housing, including:

• Signing Executive Directive 1 during her first week in office to slash red tape and streamline the approval of 100% affordable housing. Currently, nearly 47,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline with 6,000 already under construction. In December 2025, the City Council voted unanimously in favor of making the directive a permanent city ordinance.

• Implementing the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP), the largest local rezoning program in modern history that creates the capacity for half a million new homes and opens up more of the city to housing - along major corridors, near transit, and in neighborhoods where people already live and work.

• Signing into law the first update to Los Angeles' Rent Stabilization Ordinance in 40 years.

• Expanding the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance citywide to convert vacant office buildings and parking lots into housing, which could create more than 43,000 new homes across the city.

• Implementing a research-proven eviction and homelessness prevention program through the Mayor's Fund.

• Helping more than 1,000 veterans and their families secure permanent housing through her House Our Vets initiative.

• Signing Executive Directive 19 to modernize and streamline how the City reviews and processes building applications, responding directly to the barriers that applicants, developers, and contractors have identified as impediments to building in Los Angeles.

For more information on the Inside Safe program, visit https://mayor.lacity.gov/InsideSafe.