Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Friday she made a brief visit to New York City to study its success in providing interim housing for people who had been living on the streets.

“One of the things that I knew about New York, and I wanted to come here and see what they had developed, is that they started years and years ago developing a system of interim housing,” Bass told City News Service

Bass emphasized that approximately 97% of homeless people in New York City are sheltered, citing statistics from the New York Department of Social Services and hopes to emulate that success in Los Angeles.

“My whole thing coming into office was to deal with street homelessness,” Bass told CNS. “I wanted to come here to see how they were able to do that.”

Bass met with DSS Commissioner Molly Wasow Pa

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