LOS ANGELES – As Mayor Karen Bass prepares to end the city’s homelessness state of emergency next week, new data show Los Angeles has spent or committed more than $322 million on her Inside Safe initiative with limited, uneven results nearly three years into the effort.
The program is now facing fresh scrutiny from the courts.
Bass declared the state of emergency on her first day in office and launched Inside Safe as the centerpiece of her strategy to move people from encampments into temporary or permanent housing. Since then, Inside Safe has served 5,179 people across 114 encampment operations, according to the Los Angeles City Controller’s dashboard…