Even Hollywood Stars Are Fed Up with L.A.’s Demise

Los Angeles is America’s second-largest city, containing about 3.9 million people. It will elect a new mayor today, and, in a surprising development, polls show a tight race between Democratic representative Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, a real-estate developer who is running as a moderate Democrat but was a registered Republican until 2019. A new poll by UC Berkeley and the L.A. Times finds that Bass’s lead has shrunk to just a few points: 45 percent to Caruso’s 41 percent.

The City of Angels has a host of urban problems, from a soaring homeless population to a breakdown in public safety. Violent crime is up by 11 percent since late 2020. This fall, 82 percent of likely voters in Los Angeles County told the Public Policy Institute of California that homelessness was a huge problem.

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Los Angeles is America’s second-largest city, containing about 3.9 million people. It will elect a new mayor today, and, in a surprising development, polls show a tight race between Democratic representative Karen Bass and Rick Caruso, a real-estate developer who is running as a moderate Democrat but was a registered Republican until 2019. A new poll by UC Berkeley and the L.A. Times finds that Bass’s lead has shrunk to just a few points: 45 percent to Caruso’s 41 percent.

The City of Angels has a host of urban problems, from a soaring homeless population to a breakdown in public safety. Violent crime is up by 11 percent since late 2020. This fall, 82 percent of likely voters in Los Angeles County told the Public Policy Institute of California that homelessness was a huge problem.