Mayor Bass’ Inside Safe Team Brings 35 Angelenos Inside, Gets 17 RVs Off the Street Near Downtown L.A.

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LOS ANGELES - On Thursday, Mayor Bass was onsite near Downtown L.A. as her Inside Safe team brought 35 Angelenos experiencing homelessness into safe, stable housing, with an additional 6 vehicles and 14 RVs removed from the street. This is the first operation since Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 647, authored by Assemblymember Mark González and sponsored by Mayor Bass, to expand and extend a pilot program to permanently dispose of abandoned RVs valued at $4,000 or less, rather than see them sold back onto the streets. Photos and b-roll are available here.

"For too long, RV operators have taken advantage of vulnerable Angelenos by selling or renting them unsafe, broken-down RVs that become deathtraps," said Mayor Bass. "We've changed state law and, through Inside Safe, we're able to offer Angelenos safe housing while destroying the abandoned RVs that have been endangering our neighborhoods. 200 RVs have been removed from city streets and we won't stop until we end homelessness."

"This operation marks a milestone in how we can bring our unhoused neighbors into safer living conditions and can guide them onto dignified pathways to recovery," said Councilmember Ysabel Jurado. "There is no one-size-fits-all solution to addressing homelessness. But through strong local partnerships and people-centered outreach, we can ensure that vulnerable Angelenos have access to the life-saving treatment, housing placements, and comprehensive services they deserve."

The encampment deeply affected the businesses along the Alameda Corridor, one of the busiest freight routes in the region, carrying millions of dollars in goods from the Port into Los Angeles.

"I've talked to four or five of the business owners in the area today, and they're ecstatic about what you guys are doing out here," said Luke Everts, Security Manager of the Alameda Belt Line Railroad Police Department."All your processes with the buses and all the folks that are handing out the services, helping these people get off the street and have a nice place to get out of the heat and actually perhaps work on themselves-that's great."

To date, Mayor Bass' Inside Safe program has brought more than 6,500 Angelenos inside through 145 operations and removed more than 200 RVs from city streets.

In addition to addressing longstanding encampments and bringing Angelenos inside, Mayor Bass is leading prevention efforts so that more Angelenos don't fall into homelessness in the first place. Last month, Mayor Bass announced that her administration had successfully built more than 10,000 units of affordable housing across Los Angeles - four times more affordable housing units built yearly compared to the previous five years. Since taking office, Mayor Bass has used her executive power to cut red tape and eliminate the bureaucratic barriers that have slowed housing production in Los Angeles for decades, including:

• Signing Executive Directive 1 during her first week in office to slash red tape and streamline the approval of 100% affordable housing. In December 2025, the City Council voted unanimously in favor of making the directive a permanent city ordinance. Currently, nearly 50,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline.

• 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.

• 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.