LA Mayor Pushes Homeless Shelter Plan as Trump Threatens Force

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is pushing for faster ways to house the city’s homeless population as President Donald Trump threatens to seize a bigger role in ensuring public order ahead of two of the world’s most-watched sporting events.

The city is eyeing municipal land to quickly set up more tiny homes and other housing before Los Angeles hosts FIFA World Cup matches starting in June and the Summer Olympics in 2028, Bass said in an interview at Bloomberg’s Los Angeles office. Such an effort would help replace some of the tarps and tents cluttering city sidewalks.

Makeshift shelters on a sidewalk in Los Angeles.

Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg

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