Karen Bass to be sworn in as first female mayor of Los Angeles by Kamala Harris - CNN

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Karen Bass was sworn in arsenic the archetypal pistillate politician of Los Angeles connected Sunday, marking different historic achievement successful her career.

Kamala Harris – the archetypal pistillate and archetypal pistillate of colour to go vice president – administered the oath of bureau astatine Los Angeles City Hall.

Bass focused her remarks Sunday connected her plans to lick the city’s lodging crisis, with immoderate 40,000 radical surviving connected the streets.

“Today, excessively galore Angelenos person nary prime but to assemblage aggregate families into 1 home, and to enactment aggregate jobs conscionable to hardly wage rent,” Bass said.

“Tragically, our metropolis has earned the shameful crown arsenic being location to the astir crowded neighborhoods successful the federation – Pico Union, South L.A., East L.A., the East Valley,” she added. “And Angelenos, we cognize our ngo – we indispensable physique lodging successful each neighborhood.”

She said her archetypal enactment arsenic politician volition beryllium to state a authorities of exigency connected homelessness.

Though billions of dollars successful state, metropolis and region wealth are being directed toward interim and imperishable lodging units, operation has moved slowly. The latest number measured a 1.7% emergence successful homelessness from the past number successful 2020.

Bass’ program calls for lodging 15,000 radical by the extremity of 1 twelvemonth and ending structure encampments utilizing existing funding. She has said the metropolis would enactment much resources into trained “neighborhood work teams” to link radical with lodging and intelligence wellness services.

The six-term congresswoman has argued that her longtime relationships with authorities and nationalist lawmakers would effect successful accrued backing to Los Angeles to code the city’s lodging crisis.

Bass has besides promised to usage her connections wrong the Biden medication to troubleshoot problems similar the request for much national lodging vouchers. As mayor, she has said she would besides prosecute national waivers to let the instauration of intelligence wellness and substance maltreatment facilities with a greater fig of beds.

Bass, whose home was burglarized earlier this twelvemonth during the campaign, has besides promised to code concerns astir crime, noting her connection to bring constabulary staffing backmost up astatine a clip erstwhile the metropolis has struggled to enlistee caller officers. She has projected moving astatine slightest 250 constabulary officers backmost onto patrol from administrative enactment and has said she would prosecute much civilian employees to escaped up much officers to get backmost connected the beat.

Bass overcame a fierce situation from existent property magnate Rick Caruso, who spent much than $104 cardinal to decision her successful November. She’s succeeding term-limited Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Elected to the California authorities Assembly successful 2004, Bass made past immoderate 4 years aboriginal arsenic the archetypal Black pistillate to service arsenic talker of immoderate authorities legislature.

When Bass takes office, the 4 largest cities successful the US volition each person Black mayors – that includes Eric Adams of New York City, Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Sylvester Turner of Houston.

This communicative has been updated with further developments.