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Skid Row Residents Say Mayor Karen Bass Doesn’t Deserve Reelection

LOS ANGELES—With voters set to decide who will lead California’s largest city for the next four years, some residents who live on the streets of Los Angeles, or have been affected by homelessness, spoke out against the current leadership, calling for change.

Angelenos have less than a week to decide who their next mayor will be.

The top three candidates are incumbent Mayor Karen Bass, LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman, and Pacific Palisades fire survivor Spencer Pratt. Recent polls have shown that Bass remains under the 50% needed to win outright, while Pratt and Raman are running neck-and-neck for second.

For years, local residents have watched what was supposed to be a contained area for the homeless grow throughout the city. During her 2022 campaign for mayor, then-candidate Bass ran on solving the crisis.

“Our city is facing an unprecedented emergency, and we need to treat it as such,” she wrote in 2022. 

While Bass has touted decreases in unsheltered homelessness and expanded housing and services, questions about where the city’s millions in taxpayer dollars are actually going have become a major issue.

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Throughout Bass’ term, the city has allocated well over $2 billion to homeless services and programs. In her first partial fiscal year, several hundred million dollars were directed toward the issue. 

By fiscal year 2023-24, that number........

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