Mayor Bass Signs FY26-27 Budget That Includes Her Plans to Reduce Homelessness, Hire Police Officers, and Improve Basic City Services

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LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass today signed the City budget for Fiscal Year 2026-2027 focused on continuing her work reversing longstanding trends by reducing homelessness, building more housing, hiring more officers, and investing in basic city services. Mayor Bass was joined by Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson and members of the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee, including Chair Katy Yaroslavsky, Councilmember Tim McOsker, and Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez along with a number of City workers from multiple departments. Read the budget here.

"As Mayor, my focus has been to change the direction of L.A. by reversing longstanding trends on homelessness, housing, public safety, and investment in basic city services. This budget builds on that work so we can keep making progress," said Mayor Bass.

"This budget is evidence of the dedication of Mayor Bass, Budget Chair Yaroslavsky, and the City Council to prioritize the needs of Angelenos, claim LA as our home, and make the city the one we all deserve," said Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson. "From prioritizing city services and infrastructure improvements to investing in public safety, together we are readying our city to welcome the world and build long-term benefits for residents."

"I want to thank Mayor Bass and her team for putting forward a budget that, from the outset, was built around many priorities shared by this Council," said Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky. "This final budget does two very important things: It preserves and further invests in core City services, and it strengthens the City's financial position. It also reflects a serious effort by the Council and the Mayor to keep Los Angeles moving forward while putting the City on a path towards fiscal sustainability."

"In a year defined by significant fiscal challenges, this budget is centered on the City's core responsibilities, including sidewalks, streets, curbs, public safety, homelessness response, and basic city services," said Councilmember Tim McOsker. "Throughout this process, we remained committed to funding our values, protecting core services, supporting our workforce, and putting Los Angeles on stronger financial footing for the future. I want to thank Mayor Bass for putting together a strong proposed budget, as well as my colleagues on the Budget and Finance Committee for their tireless work throughout this process to deliver a responsible budget for the people of Los Angeles."

"At a time when the federal government is attacking immigrants, trans people, and working-class families while investing in punishment and division, Los Angeles chose to invest in care, prevention, dignity, and the basic services our communities rely on," said Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. "These wins happened because Angelenos organized and fought for them, and I'm proud that this budget reflects the power of people refusing to give up on each other."

The $14.85 billion balanced budget projects increased property, business, sales, and utility tax revenues, promotes greater efficiency in City services, and maximizes the use of special funds and new revenue enhancements. It prioritizes the following:

Continuing to Drive Down Homelessness

• Maintaining Inside Safe, all interim housing beds and street level services to continue Mayor Bass' work that has brought street homeless down by nearly 18 percent.

• Increasing funding to address RV encampments.

• Increasing funding for oversight, transparency, and accountability.

Bolstering Public Safety

• Increasing police hiring to 510 new officers. This maintains Mayor Bass' long-term goal of 9,500 officers.

• Training in use-of-force, de-escalation, new mental health intervention and combating copper wire theft.

• Mayor Bass is also ensuring that LAPD funding is used strategically and making an impact in the communities that need it most through:

  • Patrols in Downtown L.A. to address retail theft and street takeovers.

  • Cracking down on illegal activity in MacArthur Park.

  • A dedicated task force to combat copper wire theft.

  • A task force to go after bad actors involved in human trafficking.

  • Security surrounding interim housing shelters.

• Maintaining funding for LAFD ahead of the Sales Tax Measure, investing in equipment, including a helicopter and vehicles.

• Maintaining deployment of 500 Crossing Guards.

Crime Prevention

• Sustaining CIRCLE, UMCR, and GRYD services and citywide coverage for civilian crisis response.

• Expanding the Safe Passage program to help children get to and from school safely and protect them from gang violence.

Investing in Infrastructure and Basic City Services

• Increasing funding for street and sidewalk repair, street sweeping, bulky item pick up, and dedicated illegal dumping enforcement throughout the city.

• Increasing funding to achieve 700 lane miles of street will be repaired through improvements such as resurfacing, slurry, or large asphalt repairs.

• Increasing funding by 45% for the assessment and installation of curb ramps across the city.

• The recently launched Street Lights Initiative will repair and replace up to 60,000 street lights citywide over the next two years at no impact to City's General Fund. Implementation of Street Light Assessment which will repair 220,000 lights citywide.