Good-for-nothing nigger Democrat goes apeshit with emergency powers

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Mayor Karen Bass’ first day in office didn’t start at City Hall
but down the street at the Emergency Operations Center where,
flanked by elected officials, she declared the homeless crisis a
state of emergency.

That move, which will require City Council approval, gives her
the ability to more quickly create new interim housing and make
a plan to get the most vulnerable Angelenos off the streets as
winter weather sets in. Bass met with the general managers of
city departments, telling them to bring her solutions to make
the government more efficient and responsive when addressing
homelessness.

“We must bring people indoors faster, and we will,” she said.
“We must build housing faster, and we will. We must coordinate
shelter and services, and we will. We must have coordination
among the city officials and the city departments and we will,
because we are doing things differently.”

The question is how Bass plans to use the powers afforded to her
during an emergency. She has the ability to more quickly
dispense money to providers who do the outreach work to homeless
people, approve the master-leasing of buildings and expedite the
regulatory and permitting processes.

Though she could also commandeer property to provide housing,
she told The Times’ editorial board she won’t do that because
“you’re going to end up tied up in court forever. I’m looking
for the quickest way to do this.”

It’s unclear how much this emergency declaration would cost, if
passed, or how many units of interim housing Bass plans to
create immediately. The latest count found that about 41,000
people are homeless in the city of Los Angeles, with about
28,000 of them unsheltered.

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During the campaign, Bass said she will would bring about 17,000
people indoors in her first year. This week the newly installed
mayor said more details would be provided in the coming days
about the effort, called “Inside Safe.”

Bass estimated this first push to bring people indoors from
encampments would cost “under $100 million” but didn’t
elaborate. The state of emergency will “sunset in six months
subject to being renewed. The setting of a specific time frame
allows for actions to be taken to make permanent, necessary
structural changes,” the declaration said.

She was flanked by county Board of Supervisors Chair Janice Hahn
and City Council President Paul Krekorian.

“This is a crisis that demands all our attention, our
cooperation and our resources,” Hahn said.

The emergency declaration requires City Council authorization
every 30 days and is expected to come before the council on
Tuesday. This consolidation of power will come at the expense of
the council, but Krekorian said he was excited to work with
Bass, with whom he served in the Legislature.

“One thing that a state of emergency in the city provides is
different procurement processes, for example. So it’d be much
easier for us to acquire housing or to acquire the pieces that
are needed and so forth,” Krekorian said Monday. “All of these
things will be subjected to council oversight, and there will be
a limited duration to it.”

Under Mayor Eric Garcetti, the city at one point declared a
“shelter crisis” but stopped short of declaring a state of
emergency on homelessness. Still, Garcetti’s moves helped speed
up the process of siting and building shelters throughout the
city.

This move by Bass goes much further.

The declaration would give her additional power to spend money
on facilities and services without going through a competitive
bidding process. Those expenditures would also not require
council approval.

Sarah Dusseault, who has worked on homelessness policy in the
city and county and helped Bass develop her strategy, explained
that only the mayor has the power to activate the emergency
operations center and also strip away some of the regulations
and approval processes that tend to slow down projects.

“An emergency declaration, per the charter, comes with enormous
local authority that does not exist short of a declaration,” she
said. “There’s this hunger among the City Council and city
departments around getting clear direction from the mayor, on
the most significant issue facing our city. ... There is no
question that in a vacuum, everybody just operated to do the
best that they could. Today, in one fell swoop, she eliminated
the vacuum.”

The Times reported Sunday that Bass will aggressively target
large encampments with residents who are desperately in need of
help and have been a constant source of frustration for nearby
residents. Her advisors have been asking city agencies,
nonprofits and council offices for the locations where these
large encampments have sprung up.

“Every council member has their own plan,” said Miguel Santana,
chief executive of the Weingart Foundation, who also has helped
with the mayoral transition. “The tension that’s going to
surface is the transition from a culture where it’s each person
for themselves, and everyone running their own program, to a
system that is centralized and coordinated.”

They have been examining where these people could go at least on
a temporary basis — contemplating more hotel conversions, master-
leasing of buildings and extending the homeless-housing
operation of the nearly 500-room L.A. Grand Hotel downtown.

Bass declined to set a goal of how many beds she wanted rented
for homeless people. She did say the work would be modeled on
the “encampment to home” approach that was refined throughout
2021 across the city in areas such as Echo Park, MacArthur Park
and the Venice Boardwalk.

That work required having a supply of interim housing — usually
in the form of master-leased hotels — where people could go
quickly while they figured out a more permanent housing
solution. Standing beside Bass on Monday were some of the
largest homeless services nonprofit providers who had briefed
her on their work and needs.

“We have the trust and the engagement already built with many of
the people who are still living outdoors,” said Stephanie Klasky-
Gamer of LA Family Housing, who serves on Bass’ transition team
as well. “What we haven’t had on hand are the beds.”

Jennifer Hark Dietz, chief executive of People Assisting the
Homeless, said it sent an important message that Bass asked
organizations like hers to be there Monday, because they are
doing the work on a day-to-day basis. She said Bass appeared
very much to understand that offering people services and
housing would be much more successful than a strategy the relies
on punishing people for where they bed down at night.

“The city’s approach to homelessness has become more piecemeal
and politicized, and this state of emergency can leverage the
power of the executive branch to make sustainable improvements
to our service system and dramatically increase the production
of desperately needed housing,” she said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-12/emergency-
declaration-gives-karen-bass-new-powers