Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe team brought more than 40 unhoused Angelenos indoors into safe, stable housing through two recent operations spanning opposite ends of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley and Wilmington while collectively clearing our streets of nearly 32 tons of debris. Photos and b-roll available here.
“These operations demonstrate what is possible when we pair sustained outreach with safe housing, “ said Mayor Bass. “Before I came into office, a citywide strategy for addressing encampments did not exist. We will continue working every day to bring more Angelenos indoors, address longstanding encampments and build the affordable housing that L.A. needs to end street homelessness.”
The Wilmington and San Fernando Valley operations mark the 137th & 138th operation respectively since the program launched three years ago, bringing in more than 6,000 Angelenos citywide. Working in coordination with Councilmembers Imelda Padilla and Tim McOsker, the Inside Safe team conducted weeks of outreach to residents of longstanding encampments near Bessemer Street and Cedros Avenue in the San Fernando Valley and at the Alameda Street underpass near 223rd Street in Wilmington.
“Every Angeleno deserves the dignity of a safe and stable place to call home, and that starts with meeting people where they are and connecting them with the housing and services they need. In Council District 6, we have seen firsthand the impact that sustained outreach, compassion, and collaboration can have on our most vulnerable neighbors,” said Councilmember Imelda Padilla. “I am grateful to Mayor Bass and the Inside Safe team for their continued partnership and commitment to bringing people inside. This work is about more than resolving encampments—it is about helping our unhoused neighbors move toward stability and creating safer, healthier communities for everyone.”
“Bringing people indoors and connecting them with housing and services is the crucial work we need to do to address homelessness,” said Councilmember Tim McOsker. “This latest Inside Safe operation near Alameda Street and 223rd Street came after weeks of outreach and engagement with people living in the area. That work is critical to building trust and helping people move off the streets toward greater stability.”
The operations build on Mayor Bass’ broader efforts to expand the city’s housing capacity. Earlier this month, Mayor Bass and Councilmember Padilla opened a new Tiny Home village in Sun Valley that will serve more than 200 Angelenos transitioning out of homelessness. The site is part of an initiative to create more than 500 tiny-home beds across Los Angeles, providing stable transitional housing while reducing the city’s cost of bringing people indoors.
It also came days after Mayor Bass and Councilmember Padilla unveiled a new tiny home village in Sun Valley to provide housing for more than 200 Angelenos transitioning out of homelessness. This opening is part of a larger effort to build 500+ tiny home beds across Los Angeles which provide unhoused Angelenos with stable, transitional housing while also reducing the cost for the City to get people off the streets.
In addition to resolving longstanding encampments and getting people into interim housing, Mayor Bass is working to prevent individuals and families from becoming unhoused in the first place and to reverse decades of inaction to rapidly accelerate the building of affordable housing, including:
- Signing Executive Directive 1 during her first week in office to slash red tape and streamline the approval of 100 percent affordable housing. Currently, nearly 47,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline, with 6,000 already under construction. In December 2025, the City Council voted unanimously in favor of making the directive a permanent city ordinance.
- Implementing the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP), the largest local rezoning program in modern history that creates the capacity for half a million new homes and opens up more of the city to housing – along major corridors, near transit, and in neighborhoods where people already live and work.
- Signing into law the first update to Los Angeles’ Rent Stabilization Ordinance in 40 years.
- Expanding the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance citywide to convert vacant office buildings and parking lots into housing, which could create more than 43,000 new homes across the city.
- Implementing a research-proven eviction and homelessness prevention program through the Mayor’s Fund.
- Helping more than 1,000 veterans and their families secure permanent housing through her House Our Vets initiative.
- Signing Executive Directive 19 to modernize and streamline how the City reviews and processes building applications, responding directly to the barriers that applicants, developers, and contractors have identified as impediments to building in Los Angeles.
