Mayor Bass' Inside Safe Team Houses 91 Angelenos, Gets 6 RVs Off the Street in Pacoima and Rampart Village This Week

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More Than 6,200 Angelenos Brought Inside To Date

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass' Inside Safe team completed two operations this week, bringing 91 Angelenos experiencing homelessness into safe, stable housing. On Tuesday, the team brought 64 people inside near Beverly Boulevard and Madison Avenue in Rampart Village. Two days later, another 27 people were brought indoors and 6 RVs were removed near the corner of Louvre Street and Ralston Avenue in Pacoima. Photos and b-roll of the Beverly and Madison operation are available here. Photos and b-roll of the Louvre and Ralston operation are available here.

On Tuesday, September 29, Inside Safe completed its 143rd operation at the corner of Beverly Blvd. and Madison Ave. Fifty-nine Angelenos received housing and life-saving services through Inside Safe, while an additional five people received support through other interim housing programs with City and County partners. Because of public safety concerns in the area, Inside Safe worked closely with the LAPD and Council District 13 to carry out the operation.

"Before we could safely offer people housing, LAPD Rampart officers and detectives arrested five people who were preying on this encampment - committing crimes against the people we're here to help,"said Mayor Bass."This was about protecting those in need and getting people off the streets into stable housing."

"This was the largest encampment in our district and I want to recognize the work that went into helping 64 people move into safe, stable housing," said Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez. "Solving homelessness isn't easy, but when we bring the right resources together, we can fix things."

The operation brought relief to local business owners, families, and community members who had felt unsafe because of the large encampment on the streets and sidewalks. "It's much safer now, because we had people living in front of our gates and behind our building," said Ed Van Olpheun, Branch Manager of Dewey Pest Control on Beverly Blvd. "Our employees were being harassed, and kids had to walk through the encampments just to get to school."

On Thursday, October 1, Inside Safe completed its 144th operation in Pacoima. The team brought 27 Angelenos and their pets into interim housing from an encampment consisting mostly of RVs and makeshift structures. One Angeleno with a disability received medical treatment as soon as he arrived at interim housing.

"For many people living in RVs and makeshift shelters, fear of leaving their pets behind can be a barrier to coming inside," said Mayor Bass. "In Pacoima, we made sure people could bring their pets with them. Twenty-seven Angelenos are now inside and connected to the care they need."

"Ensuring people don't have to leave their pets behind is essential to getting them off the streets," said Councilmember Monica Rodriguez. "Today's operation restored this neighborhood for CD7 families, proving that we can deliver clean, safe streets while providing unhoused Angelenos a real pathway to stability."

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 brought more than 6,200 people inside.

In addition to resolving longstanding encampments and bringing people into interim housing, Mayor Bass is working to prevent individuals and families from becoming unhoused in the first place and rapidly accelerate the building of affordable housing.

Last month, Mayor Bass announced that her administration had successfully built more than 10,000 units of affordable housing across Los Angeles - four times more affordable housing units built yearly compared to 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 in favor of making 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, 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.

• 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.