Mayor

Bass campaigns on reducing and ending street homelessness by prioritizing interim housing (motel/hotel placements and new shelter models) to move people indoors immediately rather than waiting only for permanent supportive housing, citing her Inside Safe program, 23,000+ people moved indoors, and a 17.5% reduction in street homelessness.

“To address the homelessness crisis, we must reject the false choice between incarceration or waiting only for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH). We treat this as a life-and-death emergency, prioritizing interim housing to bring people indoors now.”

patch.com·As of May 2026

Bass supports fast-tracking 100% affordable housing through Executive Directive 1 (43,000+ units in the pipeline), but opposes apartments in single-family residential zones: she argues new housing belongs on commercial corridors and asked Governor Newsom to veto SB 79, which allows taller, denser apartment buildings near transit including in some single-family zones.

“Bass has fought to keep new apartments out of most of the city's residential neighborhoods... Bass says new housing belongs on commercial main streets, so homeowners in single-family zones don't have to see apartments going up next to their lots. That's one of the reasons she asked Governor Gavin Newsom to veto Senate Bill 79.”

laist.com·As of May 2026

Bass campaigns on public safety through a dual-track strategy: continuing LAPD officer hiring while institutionalizing the Office of Community Safety as a permanent city function for unarmed crisis response (expanding the CIRCLE program) and violence intervention, crediting this model with driving homicides to a 60-year low.

“To improve public safety, I will institutionalize the Office of Community Safety as a permanent function with a dedicated, budget for unarmed crisis response and violence intervention.”

patch.com·As of May 2026