Can Bass or Caruso solve the L.A. homeless housing crisis? Here are their divergent plans

Doug Smith, Benjamin Oreskes
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VENICE, CA - MAY 23: A woman walks down the long row of tents at the homeless encampment outside Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library on Monday, May 23, 2022 in Venice, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
A woman walks down the long row of tents at the homeless encampment outside Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library in Venice. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso have each made sweeping promises about how they would solve the homelessness crisis on city streets, where as many as 41,000 people sleep in tents, RVs and other makeshift housing.

Both candidates recently sat down with Times reporters to discuss their proposals and flesh out details.

Both promise to get thousands of people off the city's streets, but their plans diverge widely in scale and method.

Caruso focuses entirely on building new interim housing for 30,000 people in two initiatives, one using vacant government land and the other in underutilized buildings.

Bass outlined a nine-point plan she said would house more than 17,000 people by speeding up and expanding programs that already exist.

Here is a look at their proposals:

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.