L.A. Mayor Karen Bass says her administration has housed more than 18,000 unhoused Angelenos since she came into office in December 2022. That means that she’s kept her campaign promise of housing 17,000 people within her first year.
But the vast majority of the people who have been housed — 18,792 people — have gone into temporary housing, not permanent. That means they are at higher risk for ending up back on the streets.
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Temporary housing includes group shelters, tiny home villages and hotel or motel rooms. They often come with rules like curfews, restrictions on visitors and pets, and limits on how many possessions a resident can bring.
While some people might move from temporary housing into permanent housing, other people end up leaving temporary housing and go back to living on the streets. For instance, about 16% of the people who moved into temporary housing under Bass’ Inside Safe program returned to homelessness, according to data from mid-September.
Meanwhile, just 3,283 people went into permanent housing in the same time frame. (Some of the 18,792 people moved into temporary housing might have then moved into permanent housing.)
Permanent housing is meant for long-term living — like an apartment with a yearlong lease you can renew. The government subsidizes permanent housing programs through vouchers or constructing new…
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