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Longtime politician Karen Bass derailed by ‘bureaucratic barriers’

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Who would have thought government was full of “bureaucratic barriers?”

Not longtime politician Karen Bass.

Asked this week why she’d failed to meet her own goal of ending the scourge of homelessness in her first term, she replied:

“I didn’t anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now.” 

Bass, a former state assemblywoman and member of Congress, had served in elected government for 18 years prior to taking the mayor’s seat.

Yet she didn’t anticipate bureaucracy in a sprawling metropolis like LA? 

But even if she flubbed or exaggerated her expectations, isn’t it the job of elected officials to navigate –– and, one might dare hope, reduce –– the hurdles of bureaucracy?

Per the city-led annual count required by the US government, 43,695 people remain homeless in LA as of the 2025 count (the most recent available)........

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