The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is significant less popular than a year ago, probably due to the management of the devastating fires of January, according to A new survey of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
The Los Angeles County residents survey found that Bass’s unfavorable qualifications had shot at 17 percentage points compared to a year ago.
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11:21 am April 16, 2025An earlier version of this story said that the School of Public Affairs of UCLA Luskin was or Los Angeles residents. They were or residents of the Los Angeles County.
Almost half of the residents of the County surveyed had unfavorable views of the bass, compared to 32% last year. At its highest levels of popularity in 2023, a few months after being chosen, it was seen 46% favorably and 23% unfavorable.
In this year’s survey, the tasks between February 23 and March 9, 37% of residents had a favorable opinion of the bass, compared to 42% last year.
Although the survey did not ask those that the fairs were considered in the opinions of the residents about the bass, their fall in popularity was probably related, said Yaroslavsky, former member of the City Council and supervisor of the Los Angeles County that directs the Los Angeles initiative in Luskin.
“Bass has tasks of the worst part of the criticism about the fires. That is the bad news. The good news for her is that this happened overnight, and it is an opportunity, by performing well in recovery, recovering the people he has lost,” said Yaroslavsky.
Some of the 1,400 residents surveyed live outside the limits of the city of Los Angeles and will not be eligible to vote for the mayor when Bass Fachable re -election in 2026. She already faces A retirement attemptHe thought it would be an steep climb for organizers to collect enough signatures to force a vote.
The bass also worked badly in another important survey from the fires. Less than 20% or respondents For a survey by the Institute of Government Studies of UC Berkeley, co -catro -closed by The Times and published in March, he said he did an excellent or a good job in response to fires. More than 40% said they did a poor or very poor job.
Bass has defended its leadership in the crisis, citing the speed of emitting city construction permits for damaged houses in the Palisades fire and the rapid restoration of water and power compared to the most striking in California.
“The mayor focuses on leading what is on his way to being the disaster recovery effort in the history of California,” said Zach Seidl, Bass spokesman, in a statement.
The surveys follow Bass’s rocky performance following fires. He was in Ghana when the fires exploded, despite the warnings of dangerously high winds of Santa Ana. She changed the spikes with her fire chief, Kristin Crowley, in any case Withdrawing Crowley After saying that the boss could not warn him about worrying weather forecasts.
The Luskin Tok the Pulse survey of the residents of the County of the in many other issues, but the main story of this year were the fires, said Yaroslavsky.
More than 40% of respondents said they knew someone personally affected by the fires of Palisades and Eaton, who killed at least 30 people and burned thousands of houses in Pacific Palisades, Altadena and its surroundings.
More than a quarter of the people surveyed said they lost some income due to fires.
In an almost unanimous category, 89% of respondents said that those who lost their properties in fires should be able to rebuild in the same place.
The survey also pointed out the changes in some other fronts, including Homelessness, which was the problem of Bass firm before the fires.
For several years, the percentage of county residents believed that the lack of housing was worsening had increased. But in 2025, the percentage decreased by 8%, from 60% in 2024 to 52% this year.
Even so, only 10% of residents think that the situation of homeless people is improving.
The number of homeless people “without protection”, people living in the street, in Los Angeles County Fell by approximately 5% From 2023 to 2024 after years of increases, cordination to the annual count of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority.
