West LA homeless encampment cleared under city’s Inside Safe program

As part of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s Inside Safe program, approximately 50 people living on a West Los Angeles street are being relocated to a motel for temporary housing following a targeted encampment sweep.

Early Thursday morning, Mayor Bass was at Cotner Avenue in Sawtelle, marking the 114th Inside Safe operation. She noted that the area has been a notorious encampment for years.

“This operation costs the city money, but you can imagine how much money it costs to compromise the businesses that are here, the fires that are started, the paramedics that have to come,” Bass said…

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