WATCH LIVE: LA Mayor Karen Bass declares a state of emergency on the city's homeless crisis
. Her goals also included ending street encampments, reducing homelessness and focusing on mental health and substance abuse services.
"Today too many Angelenos have no choice but to crowd multiple families into one home and to work multiple jobs just to barely pay rent," Bass said. "… When a parent is hospitalized, when a job is lost, when the rent can no longer be paid, this is how and why so many Angelenos wind up losing their housing. When life is hard for some Angelenos it affects all Angelenos.
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