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19 Apr 2021
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the city Monday evening in his annual “State of the City” address that L.A. was more “just” and “forward-looking” after a year of pandemic, riots, and economic shock.
“Through our pain and our trauma, we showed who we are, and defined what we believe,” Garcetti said.
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Speaking from the iconic Griffith Observatory, the mayor struck a more optimistic tone than he had in 2020, when he told the city: “This is the worst it’s ever been.”
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES Faced with an out-of-control homeless crisis, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday was expected to propose spending nearly $1 billion in the coming year to get people off the streets, build housing and clean up squalid encampments that have spread into nearly every neighborhood in the city.
The proposal for record-level spending comes as City Hall faces widening criticism for its inability to restrain the growth of homelessness, even though city investments in programs aimed at unhoused people have soared nearly sevenfold since 2016.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is considering nearly $1 billion worth of budget to curb homelessness in the coming fiscal year.
The spending proposal is set to be discussed during his State of the City address on Monday, Los Angeles Times reported. The said budget would be spent on improving the construction of homes for the homeless.
The Los Angeles mayor plans to propose $791 million in the upcoming budget year for initiatives to help homeless residents and increase cleanups around shelters and expand programs aimed at keeping the homeless housed. We are putting our money where our heart is to bring our neighbors indoors, Garcetti said as reported by CBS News.
20 Apr 2021
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed a new program Monday to use therapy rather than policing to respond to some nonviolent emergencies, outlining the idea in his “State of the City” speech.
Unveiling what he called a “Justice Budget,” fueled by cash from President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill, Garcetti proposed new spending on a variety of “progressive” programs, including on public safety.
Garcetti said that he opposed efforts to “abolish the police,” but he said that the “burden” of some police work should be handled by other programs: “We have lived for far too long in an America that outsourced the work of public safety only to a few, instead of embracing it as the work of us all. While much of that work is heroic, too often it is tragic as well.”