Mayor Bass' plan to have rich people fund homelessness program might just work: LA business leaders

Fox News— 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.”

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

Los Angeles Daily News—LA Mayor Bass says $12.8B budget will focus on homelessness and potholes. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is proposing a city budget of $12.8 billion for the 2024-25 fiscal year – a decrease of $293 million (about 2%)...