By Noah Bierman | LA Times
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who is trying to combat one of the nation’s largest homelessness crises, said she is eager to work with the incoming administration, and believes she and Trump can find common ground in housing the city’s estimated 46,000 homeless people.
“I’m certainly going to begin that way,” said Bass, a Democrat who was sworn into office by Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview. “Over the years that I spent in Congress — 12 years that I spent in Congress — I have very significant Republican relationships.”
The city doesn’t have cheap or remote land, and Bass does not believe she would need to use more aggressive tactics to get people off the street, she said. But she would be eager to use federal property for temporary shelters — as some Trump administration officials proposed during his first term in office — Bass said.
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