In a 9 a.m. news conference Monday, newly inaugurated Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass officially declared a state of emergency on homelessness.
Bass said the declaration would streamline efforts to address the issue, calling it a"seismic shift."
The homelessness issue encompasses more than 40,000 people living in trash-strewn encampments or rusty RVs that have spread into virtually every neighborhood.that the many separate arms of government must come together to confront homelessness.
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