Taxpayers are forking over big bucks for LA's Inside Safe, which gets people off streets but places some in dilapidated motels.
Plant and Schacht are among the 1,200 unhoused people the city has temporarily moved into motels as part of LA Mayor Karen Bass'"Inside Safe" program, an effort to dismantle encampments across the city and help the homeless build lives off the streets.The I-Team contacted the manager of the Los Angeles Inn to discuss the costs and conditions of the rooms. He said he didn't want to comment.
Bass explained that the city agreed to pay the hefty motel rates to get the homeless off the streets quickly after she took office. "So we're coming up with another way to provide housing, which is for us to enter into purchasing, essentially, motels and hotels. And needless to say that takes a while," Bass said.
Most of the 1,200 homeless people moved off LA's streets since January by the Inside Safe program remain in motels because, they say, no one is helping them find permanent apartments.
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