Things aren’t going so well with Karen Bass’s rebuilding of L.A. after the worst fires in the history of the city. Sure, she’s got the “we’re in this together” speechifying down. But sadly for L.A., speeches don’t get things done.
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This week we found out that the Los Angeles mayor’s office has only managed to get four building permits pushed through her city’s sausage making machine. Seventy-two are in the queue. The multimillionaire named to be the sherpa by which all things are rebuilt, has been allowed to fade into the sunset.
“Recovery czar” Steve Soboroff, supposedly Bass’s rebuilding point man, complained as he left his 90-day stint that he may have had responsibility but none of the power to get things done.
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