This historic budget reflects our values and Angelenos’ most pressing needs. It makes an unprecedented $1.3 billion investment to dramatically reduce homelessness and improve public safety while being fiscally responsible and preparing for uncertainties in the year ahead. 

With this budget, we will scale up Inside Safe – our new citywide program to bring unhoused Angelenos inside and end street encampments. So far, more than 1,200 Angelenos have been brought inside through more than 16 operations. You may have seen stories about it in the news in Venice and San Vicente, but we’ve also launched operations throughout the City, including in Hollywood, Downtown, South L.A., and the Valley.

Our budget also aims to ensure that every Angeleno feels safe in our City. It provides for hiring additional LAPD officers, LAFD firefighters, and paramedics, while also increasing the number of civilian employees working within LAPD. It also aims to reduce 911 response times by expanding the Police Service Representative workforce.

If we want to make Los Angeles safer, we need to invest in preventing crimes from happening in the first place. That’s why this budget creates the Mayor’s Office of Community Safety, which will offer unarmed response and programs connecting people to jobs and services. It also invests in comprehensive solutions to crime like the Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) program and prioritizes mental health co-responders so that law enforcement officials are not the first line of response to individuals undergoing mental health crises. 

The budget will protect our environment by investing millions in everything from progress towards our emission goals, to ensuring that we take full advantage of the recent rains as summer approaches. It will strengthen our infrastructure by putting the work in to make L.A. more walkable and accessible and even filling more potholes! 

Thank you to Council President Paul Krekorian, Chair of the Budget, Finance and Innovation Committee Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, and the Los Angeles City Council for locking arms with me to approve a budget that substantially invests in making Los Angeles a more livable city for all. 

There is a role for every one of us to play in the work ahead – which means we need to keep in touch! Click below to sign up for updates directly from me. I am committed to working with you and Angelenos all across our City to get big things done.

Together, we will move Los Angeles forward.

Karen Bass
Mayor of Los Angeles