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LA Mayor Bass orders list of vacant city properties where homeless housing could be built

Tents for the homeless line a street corner in Los Angeles, California, on Dec. 6, 2022. A state of emergency over levels of homelessness was declared in Los Angeles Dec. 12, 2022, as the new mayor Karen Bass pledged a "seismic shift" for America's second biggest city. Tens of thousands of people sleep rough on Los Angeles' streets, in an epidemic that shocks many visitors...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered city officials on Friday to prepare a list of the city’s surplus and unused properties over the next three weeks, the first major step in identifying which ones will be used for building homeless housing.

Bass, in her third executive directive on homelessness since taking office in December, said she wants city officials to vet each of those sites by March 31 to determine which would work best for temporary or permanent housing — an aggressive timetable for a

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