(DailyChive.com) – Los Angeles liberal Mayor Karen Bass has urged “the most fortunate” citizens to fund the housing schemes for the homeless people of the city. During her State of the City address, Bass called for an “unprecedented partnership” to eliminate the housing crisis that is affecting almost 46,200 people, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Bass claimed that the streets of L.A. have become a “disaster” and that the city is in desperate need to start a new initiative to provide shelters to homeless people.
The Mayor also bragged about her Inside Safe Program, which has reportedly relocated almost 21,000 homeless people into temporary shelters. She mentioned that moving homeless people into these shelters is the ultimate solution to resolve the city’s housing crisis.
However, Bass revealed that this initiative requires a lot of funding, so she invited the wealthiest residents of Los Angeles to use their personal, corporate, and philanthropic resources to secure more properties to expedite housing availability for the poor. Bass named this new campaign LA4LA.
According to Bass, the “generosity” of the private sector is the key to bringing the city out of the prevailing homelessness crisis. She acknowledged that this problem has taken a toll on everyone living in the city, alongside discouraging businesses and increasing crimes.
Bass also suggested that more people can face homelessness in the near future due to rising evictions and the conclusion of the pandemic era financial assistance for many households.
Recently, business owners and residents made a coalition named L.A. Alliance for Human Rights to sue the city government for not honoring a 2020 settlement, according to which the city was supposed to construct shelters to remove homeless camps.
Fox News reported that the L.A. government spent hundreds of millions of dollars just to worsen the homelessness crisis. Now, a federal judge has ordered the Los Angeles City Council to pay $2.2 million for an independent audit of the city’s homelessness programs.
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