Alan Graham

No, humans... Yes.

Look at that mugshot, man.

Yeah.

We're a piece of the puzzle, Joe.

I'm not a big fan of the word solution.

People want to solve things, and I appreciate that.

Humanity is very difficult to solve.

We've been dealing with these issues, issues of poverty and issues of abandonment and issues of trauma since the advent of man.

Hell, the Bible basically begins with the Cain and Abel experience.

So what we're witnessing today is really nothing extraordinarily new, but because of the urban environment that we live in, it's very congregated, and we're so separated as a culture.

today that it's manifesting into this chaos.

What we need to do is we need to open the door very wide to innovation.

And I will tell you from 1975 to 1995, 20 years, one simple generation, we eliminated in the United States of America one million, that's one with six zeros after it, single room occupancy units in the United States.

Okay.

Tonight, there'll be about 600,000 people living on the streets.

In L.A., it's 50, 60, whatever that number is.

And what were those single occupancy units?

Just simple places with a bed and, you know, metaphorically, a microwave inside, maybe a shared bathroom down the hallway.

And where were these places?

In all of our cities.