LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered city officials on Friday to prepare a list of the city’s surplus and unused properties over the next three weeks, the first major step in identifying which ones will be used for building homeless housing.
Bass, in her third executive directive on homelessness since taking office in December, said she wants city officials to vet each of those sites by March 31 to determine which would work best for temporary or permanent housing — an aggressive timetable for a city that has been struggling for years to respond to the crisis.
The mayor intends to seek similar information over the coming months from the city’s three proprietary agencies — the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports and the Department of Water and Power — which may face some restrictions on how their property is used. She also will seek to build on sites owned by the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where she controls four of 13 board seats.
