New LA Mayor To Declare Homelessness Emergency

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports:

Los Angeles’ newest mayor has already announced she will take action to fulfill one of her campaign promises in her first day in office. Former U.S. Representative Karen Bass was sworn in as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles Sunday.

In doing so, she became the first woman and second Black person to lead the city. In her inauguration speech, Bass reiterated her plan to tackle the homeless crisis, one of pillars of her campaign.

“Tomorrow morning, I will start my first day as mayor at the city’s emergency operation centers where my first act as mayor will be to declare a state of emergency on homelessness,” Bass said.

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Karen Bass pledged to tackle the city’s homelessness crisis on her first official day in office Monday by visiting the
city’s Emergency Operations Center to declare a state of emergency on homelessness. https://t.co/Mr4c2VZhiC

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) December 11, 2022