Mayor Bass’ Inside Safe Team Houses 33 Angelenos in Two Same-Day Operations From Venice to the Valley

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147th and 148th Operations Bring Angelenos and Their Pets Into Accessible Housing; More Than 6,600 Angelenos Brought Inside to Date

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe team completed two operations on Thursday, November 5, bringing 33 Angelenos experiencing homelessness into safe, stable housing. In Venice, the team brought 15 people and 4 pets inside near Park Ave & Speedway. In the San Fernando Valley, another 18 people and 6 pets were brought indoors near Hubbard Street and Gladstone Avenue in Sylmar.

Several people at the encampment needed accessibility support, and the team made sure they were connected to ADA-accessible housing and services.

"Inside Safe has always been about the people," said Mayor Bass. "From Venice to the Valley, we're meeting Angelenos where they are, including people with disabilities who couldn't safely stay on the street another night, and bringing them inside. Thanks to today's two operations, 33 more Angelenos now have a safe place to sleep and the support they need to rebuild their lives."

Venice has long been at the center of the City's homelessness crisis, and Inside Safe has made steady progress there. Working alongside Councilmember Traci Park, through the 147th operation, the Inside Safe team has now brought more than 300 people in Council District 11 inside.

For Shelby and Joey, who had been living in Venice for nearly five months, coming inside meant safety and the peace of mind to focus on finding stable work. "We only came out here because we didn't have anywhere else to go. It was either this or Skid Row," said Joey. "Every day has felt like five to ten years. It's been the hardest thing I've ever been through. And we're leaving today. We're speechless. We're so happy."

The Sylmar operation follows October's Pacoima operation, making it the second Inside Safe in Council District 7 in five weeks. Both are part of the City's ongoing partnership with Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez to bring people inside across the northeast San Fernando Valley.

"Addressing homelessness requires relentless coordination, persistence, and a shared commitment to delivering real solutions for our neighborhoods," said Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez. "This successful operation demonstrates how we work to bring the unhoused indoors, connect them with the care they need, and deliver results that reclaim our public spaces for Valley families."

The two operations reflect Inside Safe's neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach to resolving encampments, bringing Angelenos indoors and connecting them with critical services. To date, Inside Safe has completed 148 operations, brought more than 6,600 unsheltered Angelenos into interim housing and removed more than 200 RVs from city streets.

In addition to addressing longstanding encampments and bringing Angelenos inside, Mayor Bass is leading prevention efforts so that more Angelenos don't fall into homelessness in the first place. Mayor Bass' administration has built more than 10,000 units of affordable housing across Los Angeles, more than four times as many units per year as the previous five years. Since taking office, Mayor Bass has used her executive power to cut red tape and eliminate the bureaucratic barriers that have slowed housing production in Los Angeles for decades, including:

• Signing Executive Directive 1 during her first week in office to slash red tape and streamline the approval of 100% affordable housing. In December 2025, the City Council voted unanimously to make the directive a permanent city ordinance. Currently, nearly 50,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline.

• Implementing the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP), the largest local rezoning program in modern history, which 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.

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

• Helping more than 1,300 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.

• Signing Executive Directives 25 and 26 to further accelerate permitting, expand housing development on public land and simplify affordable housing applications for Angelenos.

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