City of Los Angeles, CA
03/10/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/10/2026 11:54
Mayor Bass Issues Statement Regarding LA’s First Decrease in Homeless Mortality in a Decade
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass today issued the following statement regarding the LA County Department of Public Health's report showing a decrease in homeless mortality for the first time in a decade:
"We have much more to do to save lives and to address encampments and street homelessness in our city, but this report underscores the importance of our strategy to bring people inside.
"There is no doubt that Inside Safe, by bringing thousands of people inside and reducing street homelessness by 17.5 percent, has saved lives and helped drive this decline.
"Until my Administration launched Inside Safe, Los Angeles never before had a comprehensive strategy aimed at addressing encampments and at voluntarily moving people into shelter immediately.
"The result was homelessness rising year, after year, after year. More death, year after year, after year.
"We have reversed these longstanding trends - with overall homelessness, street homelessness and now homeless mortality all declining.
"Now, it's up to us to keep moving forward, and to not let us get pulled back to the failures of the past. Because lives are literally at stake."
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