Brief

Councilmember Monica Rodriguez moved for a Chief Legislative Analyst report on the City's Inside Safe program, seeking details on the number and location of operations, participants placed in interim housing, specific hotels used, services provided, and non-City resources. Council adopted the motion 11-0-4 on January 31, 2024. The City provided three separate CLA reports with updated data through June 2024. The file expired per Council policy on June 26, 2026, and is now closed.

Full summary

In October 2023, Councilmember Monica Rodriguez introduced a motion directing the Chief Legislative Analyst to produce detailed accountability data on the City's Inside Safe program, Mayor Karen Bass's flagship initiative for resolving encampments by moving unhoused residents into interim hotel and motel rooms. Rodriguez noted that while 1,574 individuals had transitioned into interim housing across 25 encampment operations as of September 2023, the criteria for selecting which hotels or motels to use for each operation remained undefined, and it was unclear whether council districts were being used to house people displaced from other areas of the City. The motion asked for operation-by-operation breakdowns of locations, participant counts, hotel assignments, services delivered, and non-City funding sources. The Housing and Homelessness Committee approved the motion as amended on January 17, 2024, and the full Council adopted it 11-0-4 on January 31, 2024. In response, the Chief Legislative Analyst submitted a comprehensive report on April 25, 2024, drawing on data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and covering all Inside Safe operations from December 20, 2022 through February 1, 2024. That report catalogued 80 distinct operations — including initial encampment resolutions and follow-up repopulation visits — listing for each the start and end dates, outreach provider, interim housing provider, council district location, number of people moved inside, and per-person-per-day service cost, which was uniformly $110 across all operations. Service providers included organizations such as HOPICS, St. Joseph Center, The People Concern, Los Angeles Family Housing Corporation, Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission, Weingart Center, PATH, and Harbor Interfaith Services, among others. The data revealed the scope of the program across the city: major operations included a Skid Row encampment resolution that moved 173 people, a Virgil Middle School and Shatto Park operation that moved 116, and a Venice and Sunset operation that moved 106. The report also tracked participant outcomes beyond initial placement, noting how many remained in interim housing, had been incarcerated, had died, or had entered medical, psychiatric, or substance use facilities as of the reporting date. Two revised reports followed in late June 2024, after LAHSA identified discrepancies in operation dates and council district location data in the original dataset, and provided a corrected matrix to the CLA. The file drew community attention, with impact statements submitted by the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council in December 2023 and the North Westwood Neighborhood Council on multiple occasions in mid-2025. The file expired on July 16, 2026, per Council policy, having fulfilled its directive through the submission of the requested reports without further legislative action.

Activity (17)

• 2026-07-16 File expired per Council policy, Council file No. 05-0553.
• 2025-08-18 Community Impact Statement submitted by North Westwood Neighborhood Council.
• 2025-07-11 Community Impact Statement submitted by North Westwood Neighborhood Council.
• 2025-07-10 Community Impact Statement submitted by North Westwood Neighborhood Council.
• 2024-06-27 Chief Legislative Analyst document(s) referred to Housing and Homelessness Committee.
• 2024-06-26 Document(s) submitted by Chief Legislative Analyst, as follows:Chief Legislative Analyst report 24-06-0461, dated June 26, 2024, relative to revised data for June 24, 2024, from Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority for Inside Safe operations.
• 2024-06-26 Chief Legislative Analyst document(s) referred to Housing and Homelessness Committee.
• 2024-06-25 Document(s) submitted by Chief Legislative Analyst, as follows:Chief Legislative Analyst report 24-06-0453, dated June 25, 2024, relative to revised data for April 25, 2024, from Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority for Inside Safe operations.
• 2024-04-25 Chief Legislative Analyst document(s) referred to Housing and Homelessness Committee.
• 2024-04-25 Document(s) submitted by Chief Legislative Analyst, as follows:Chief Legislative Analyst report 24-02-0110, dated April 25, 2024, relative to the number of Inside Safe operations, the location of the operations, the number of participants placed in interim housing, the hotel each operation used, services provided, and non-City resources utilized.
• 2024-02-02 Council action final.
• 2024-01-31 Council adopted item, subject to reconsideration, pursuant to Council Rule 51.
• 2024-01-26 City Clerk scheduled item for Council on January 31, 2024.
• 2024-01-17 Housing and Homelessness Committee approved as amended .
• 2024-01-12 Housing and Homelessness Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on January 17, 2024.
• 2023-12-18 Community Impact Statement submitted by Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council.
• 2023-10-25 Motion referred to Housing and Homelessness Committee.

Documents (13)

• 2025-08-18 Community Impact Statement submitted by North Westwood Neighborhood Council · cis
• 2025-07-11 Community Impact Statement submitted by North Westwood Neighborhood Council · cis
• 2025-07-10 Community Impact Statement submitted by North Westwood Neighborhood Council · cis
• 2024-11-15 Communication(s) from Public · communication
• 2024-06-26 Report from Chief Legislative Analyst · report
• 2024-06-25 Report from Chief Legislative Analyst · report
• 2024-04-25 Report from Chief Legislative Analyst · report
• 2024-02-02 Council Action · council_action
• 2024-01-31 Speaker Card(s) · speaker_card
• 2024-01-17 Report from Housing and Homelessness Committee · report
• 2024-01-17 Speaker Card(s) · speaker_card
• 2023-12-18 Community Impact Statement submitted by Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council · cis
• 2023-10-25 Motion · motion

Council votes (1)

• 2024-01-31 Vote — 11-0-4 · Regular