Karen Bass likes to tout LA’s progress in reducing homelessness. Last July, for example, she claimed that the city’s annual homeless count had declined for two years in a row . She called that “lasting change.” But it hasn’t lasted in Venice, where homeless encampments keep returning. The latest example is the encampment at the corner of Rose Avenue and Hampton Drive, which Bass personally visited three years ago. She promised that she would make sure the encampment “isn’t re-populated.” Yet as