Bass, other California mayors visit Sacramento seeking funding to tackle homelessness

ABC7 Los Angeles— L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and several other California mayors visited Sacramento to urge the state for more funding to address homelessness.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser—Honolulu mayor in D.C. seeking federal funds to fight homelessness. While in Washington, D.C., this week, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi plans to lobby the Biden administration for more federal funds for vouchers designed to reduce homelessness — and prevent more families from becoming homeless.

Fox News—Mayor Bass' plan to have rich people fund homelessness program might just work: LA business leaders. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' strategy to employ wealthy residents to help fund housing for the homeless is garnering support from local business leaders who say it might be the only solution to effectively tackle the growing crisis. During her State of the City address on Monday, the Democratic mayor highlighted the city's struggle to house over 40,000 homeless people, declaring that "the crisis on our streets is nothing less than a disaster." Bass touted the success of her signature Inside...

CNN—How LA Mayor Karen Bass plans to end street homelessness. Democratic Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles tells CNN’s Dana Bash that “people are willing and ready to leave the streets” and “we have destroyed the myth that people choose to be on the streets and that they won’t leave.”