{"id":1779502,"date":"2022-12-18T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779502"},"modified":"2022-12-18T17:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:03:25","slug":"far-left-l-a-mayor-karen-bass-im-moving-the-homeless-from-tents-to-hotels-or-motels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-l-a-mayor-karen-bass-im-moving-the-homeless-from-tents-to-hotels-or-motels\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-Left L.A. Mayor Karen Bass: I\u2019m Moving The Homeless \u2018From Tents To Hotels Or Motels\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffar-left-l-a-mayor-karen-bass-im-moving-the-homeless-from-tents-to-hotels-or-motels%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a> Mayor Karen Bass said over the weekend that she wants to eliminate the homeless encampments that are plaguing the city\u2019s streets through the state of emergency that she declared on her first day in office.<\/p>\n<p>Bass made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-december-18-2022-n1302029\">\u201cMeet the Press\u201d<\/a> with host Chuck Todd.<\/p>\n<p>Bass claimed that 95% of the city\u2019s 40,000 homeless people would accept taxpayer-funded public housing if it was offered to them.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Todd if she would allow LAPD and sanitation officers to continue doing sweeps of the encampments, she said, \u201cno\u201d and that she wanted to put the homeless people into hotels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, these are not sweeps at all. This is getting people to move on their own, but then after the person leaves sanitation is absolutely going to have to be there,\u201d she said. \u201cNo question about it. But this is not coercing people. This is not ticketing people or incarcerating people. This is moving people from tents to hotels or motels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>CHUCK TODD: And joining me now from Los Angeles is the former member of Congress and VP short-lister to Joe Biden, by the way, the new mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Mayor Bass, congratulations and welcome back to Meet The Press.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYOR KAREN BASS: Thank you. Thanks for having me on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHUCK TODD: I want to start with what\u2019s going to be different this time. And what I mean by this time is, in 2015 \u2014 this was pre-pandemic, obviously \u2014 Eric Garcetti declared a version of a state of emergency. Not quite the same as what you declared. Yours is a bit more comprehensive. But it freed up $100 million and tried to tackle the homeless problem that he was dealing with back in 2015. It didn\u2019t work. What\u2019s going to make what you\u2019re doing more successful than what Mayor Garcetti attempted to do?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYOR KAREN BASS: Well, I think a few things. First of all, it\u2019s not just about the money. Of course money is needed, but it\u2019s really about the arcane bureaucratic process. You talk to developers and it\u2019s just so difficult to get anything done. So when I declared a state of emergency and issued following executive directives, it basically allows the process to be centralized. It allows time certain for building. Chuck, the other day I did a press conference on a piece of land where the builder had been working for 16 years and had just finally broken ground. So it\u2019s about bursting past the bureaucratic maze and developers having no idea when approvals will be done. So now I\u2019m requiring that approvals and the process be moved within 30 to 60 days.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHUCK TODD: There\u2019s a few issues that people run into all the time when it comes to dealing with the homeless in the city. The biggest one is, What do you do about people that don\u2019t want to leave, that don\u2019t want to move, that don\u2019t want to go into shelters?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYOR KAREN BASS: Well, you know, what we have found in the community organizations that we\u2019re bringing in to do this work is that you can get 95% of the people housed. People will go. It takes a while. You have to do outreach. And what the community programs do is that they work with people who were formerly unhoused. People are unhoused for a variety of different reasons. Some are profoundly mentally ill. Some are profoundly addicted. You have to address the reasons why they wound up unhoused while you house them. So we\u2019re going to launch a program on Tuesday called Inside Safe, which is going to address the people that are in the tents. Now, it\u2019s not going to address everybody, but it is going to address, hopefully, a significant number. But we\u2019re going to put them in motels and hotels immediately. It\u2019s interesting: it\u2019s lessons that were learned from the pandemic. Some community organizations have been trying to get the city to master lease out entire hotels and motels for years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHUCK TODD: Are you still going to allow LAPD and sanitation officers to do these sweeps of encampments?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MAYOR KAREN BASS: No, these are not sweeps at all. This is getting people to move on their own, but then after the person leaves sanitation is absolutely going to have to be there. No question about it. But this is not coercing people. This is not ticketing people or incarcerating people. This is moving people from tents to hotels or motels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHUCK TODD: We know some of this is a \u2014 that you\u2019ve run across quite a bit of mental health challenges here with the homeless population. Mayor Adams, in New York City, is talking about, you know, temporary institutions to help those with mental health problems. You know, do you think we need to bring some institutions<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said over the weekend that she wants to eliminate the homeless encampments that are plaguing the city\u2019s streets through the state of emergency that she declared on her first day in office. 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