By Liam Dillon, David Zahniser and Doug Smith | LA Times
In Paris, the French government packed homeless people and migrants onto buses and sent them out of the city as the Summer Olympics approached. In 2016, more than 70,000 were displaced from Rio de Janeiro’s favelas to make way for the event. And ahead of the Games in 1984, the Los Angeles Police Department saddled nearly three dozen mounted horse patrols to scatter homeless people into less visible areas downtown.
Now, in advance of the 2028 Olympics, Mayor Karen Bass is pledging that the city will not resort to such severe tactics to remove the tens of thousands living here without shelter.
“However our strategy evolves, it will always be housing people first,” Bass said in an interview Thursday. “It will never be putting people on a bus and shipping them out.”
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Re: Bass vows not to bus homeless people out for 2028 Olympics. But what will L.A. do?
Given the sorry state of the homeless problem throughout the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Bass should not concern herself about the 2028 Olympics and busing homeless people out of the city, the reason:
There’s a good chance she might not be reelected.
Maybe mayor Bass can consult with her Cuban counterparts and asked the Cuban government, how the Cuban mayors handled their homelessness.
Mayor Bass 2.0