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20260616 Raman - Inside Safe costs an average of $85,000 a year for a motel room and services, and some rooms go as high as $100,000 per year. It is the most expensive temporary housing program in LA.rtf
20260616 Raman - Inside Safe is also the only citywide strategy that the Mayor’s Office is coordinating right now. It is the most expensive temporary housing program in LA.rtf
20260617 Raman - Thousands of people are currently staying for more than a year in our most expensive interventions, without getting access to case management and care.rtf
20260617 Raman – City Council established a Bureau of Homelessness Oversight but no one has been hired to staff it. Gemini says that’s bc of the city's notoriously long and rigid civil service hiring process.rtf
20260620 Raman – LA has never built a real system for homelessness response. Instead, City Hall has put together a patchwork of programs, agencies. Efforts towards accountability and oversight are ignored or slow-walked.rtf
20260620 only 28% of Inside Safe participants have exited the program to permanent housing in Fiscal Year 2025-26.14 By comparison, for participants in the Time Limited Subsidy program, 75% have exited.rtf
20260623 According to the program’s most recent dashboard, nearly 43% of the people served by Inside Safe have returned to homelessness, up from 32% in December 2024.rtf
20260623 Bass - Helped lead Measure A — a countywide ballot measure funding renter protection and homelessness prevention programs.rtf
20260623 Bass - Partnered city agencies to deploy $1 million in rental assistance to vulnerable AANHPI [Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander] households facing housing instability.rtf
20260623 Bass has said she plans to use a second term in office to strengthen Inside Safe’s services to keep more people indoors. She also defended her decision to launch the program without an extensive planning process.rtf
20260623 Bass has sought to tackle the issue from another direction, fast-tracking the approval of 100% affordable housing projects, requiring their approval within 60 days. The city has approved more than 40,000 units.rtf
20260627 30m21s Bass in the mayoral debate - I believe it was important to act in this city. Angelenos do not want to see encampments on the street.rtf
20260628 2025 State of the City address - Bass acknowledges that "motels alone are not financially sustainable. We must invest in long-term interim housing".rtf
20260628 Bass and other mayors won housing vouchers for veterans who were already receiving disability checks.rtf
20260628 Bass- Having formerly homeless people as part of street outreach to the homeless is “a way of providing jobs”.rtf
20260628 Politico’s claim that Bass acknowledged that Inside Safe was financially unsustainable is not correct. Bass was saying that motels alone are not sustainable.rtf
20260629 38m20s Bass - you don’t provide services on the street. You put ‘em in housing on day one and provide services on day one.rtf
20260630 31m27s Bass says eventually Los Angeles needs to have its own system [for medical homeless services?] and not be dependent on the county.rtf
20260630 31m50s Bass implies that advocating for [homeless] services from the county, as Raman proposes, is not adequate bc other councilors have been advocating for 12 years.rtf
20260701 Inside Safe represents a major change: instead of waiting on expensive new housing to be built, we tapped LA’s supply of underused motels to bring people inside immediately - Mayor's state of the city address.rtf
20260702 12m Pratt says that Bass doesn’t mention the number of homeless dying when she mentions declines in the homeless population.rtf
20260709 Bass said the city is developing more cost-effective shelters, while supporting permanent housing and preventing people from losing their homes in the first place.rtf
20260709 LA reports “interim housing” added, not congregate shelter beds. It seems likely (todo1) that they have not been adding any congregate shelter beds.rtf
20260709 What is Bass’s position on drug use among the homeless todo1.rtf
20260716 Bass claims that ED 1 has sped up review of affordable housing units.rtf
20260716 Bass' Inside Safe.rtf
20260716 To Bass, “interim housing” has meant “acquiring” or leasing hotels and motels.rtf
20260716 To speed up the housing pipeline, the Mayor’s Executive Directive 1 (ED1) has accelerated the review of more than 9,000 affordable housing units.rtf
20260717 Los Angeles should not have "staying in permanent supportive housing" as the ultimate goal todo0 find evidence that this is their ultimate goal.rtf
20260718 Posted on Dec 6, 2023 - “32 encampment resolutions have been completed under the Mayor’s new citywide Inside Safe initiative”.rtf
20260720 Bass addressed congregate shelters, not dismissing them outright but calling them ann emergency optionHas Mayor Karen Bass addressed (and, especially, outright rejected) congregate shelters or transitional housing.rtf
20260720 Grok calls Inside Safe "transitional housing".rtf
20260723 Bass - “For two years straight, we drove down homelessness by historic margins — but as expected, last year our efforts ultimately couldn't keep up with policies and funding cuts on the federal and state levels.rtf
20260723 SUMMARY OF BASS W.R.T. HOMELESSNESS *** todo1.rtf
20260727 LA Times - In December 2025, when Inside Safe finished its third year, about 40% of participants were back on the street.rtf
20260727 Los Angeles has spent more than $300 million on Inside Safe since Bass launched the program in December 2022, clearing scores of homeless encampments and moving about 5,800 people into interim housing.rtf
20260728 55% of Inside Safe participants are “in some form of housing”.rtf
20260728 Blasi said there were never enough vouchers and low-cost apartments to provide permanent housing to Inside Safe participants in a timely way. So, they’ve been in expensive motel rooms for long stretches.rtf
20260728 Inside Safe has “a wide array of rules” – no alcohol or illegal drugs, sometimes no food (roaches), no leaving for three days w∕o prior approval, no guests.rtf
20260728 Inside Safe participants are kicked out if they’re gone longer than 72 hours.rtf
20260728 “More services” – like Haven for Hope provides? “Bass, asked about the worrisome trend, said she believes that Inside Safe participants need more services to address those issues”.rtf
20260809 Bass - Now, just as everyone deserves the dignity of shelter, everyone deserves the dignity of work.rtf
20260809 Bass - We must improve the retention rate in interim housing by developing stronger and more comprehensive services.rtf
20260809 Bass – Through Inside Safe we have resolved nearly 120 encampments and moved thousands of Angelenos into permanent housing. We have an 85% retention rate in permanent housing.rtf
20260820 Fifty-six Inside Safe participants were surveyed. “75% of respondents said the program has never provided mental health services. Only five reported meeting with a mental health provider more than one time”.rtf
20260820 Inside Safe dashboard URL - homelessdashboard.lacontroller.app ∕ InsideSafe.rtf
20260820 Since taking office, Bass has made the removal of street encampments a top priority, arguing that they are unsafe both for unhoused residents and for the neighbors.rtf
20260822 75% of respondents said [Inside Safe] has never provided mental health services. Only five reported meeting with a mental health provider more than one time.rtf
20260826 LA4LA: a capital campaign created through an alliance between government, the private sector, and philanthropy.rtf
20260917 Bass appointed herself to one of the ten spots of the governing commission of LAHSA and then resigned on September 9, 2026, citing time constraints.rtf