(California Globe) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is leaving the commission that oversees the city’s lead homeless agency— the same board she appointed herself to, then rarely attended.
A mayoral spokesperson told reporters Tuesday that Bass would step off the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission on Wednesday and name a replacement. The office did not say who would replace Bass.
As of Tuesday, LAHSA’s chief of staff said the agency had not been told she was leaving. Bass framed the exit as a matter of time. “I am going to be stepping down because I just—in terms of time and all,” she told KFI last week. She also said serving on the commission taught her that “the city needs to have its own system.”
Spokesman Ilanna Morales said Bass’s “first-hand experience at LAHSA reinforced her understanding that our current system is broken” and that City Hall is drafting a “city-led homelessness response.”
LAist reviewed commission records and found Bass skipped 13 of 21 LAHSA meetings in a recent 12-month span—well above the four-absence threshold that can trigger removal under the agency’s bylaws. Since she put herself on the 10-member board in late 2023, she missed 25 of 47 meetings.