ALT VENICE, CA - JANUARY 4, 2023 - - A homeless man salvages items left from an abandoned encampment on Hampton Ave. in Venice on January 4, 2023. Many of the homeless, who once lived in the encampments, were given housing at the LA Inn and Suites as part of the Inside Safe initiative. Over a dozen other homeless were taken from the area and given housing at the same hotel. Mayor Karen Bass and Councilwoman Traci Park announced that the Mayor's new Inside Safe initiative was underway in Venice. Outreach has begun to people living in encampments surrounding the A Bridge Home site at the intersection of Sunset Avenue and Pacific Avenue, and people who had accepted housing were taken by bus to a hotel in Los Angeles. Inside Safe is a new, citywide, proactive housing-led strategy to bring people inside from tents and encampments for good, and to prevent encampments from returning. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)