Emma Pettit

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457 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Last Invention · Street Fight Part III: Can We End It? · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

someone actually might end up spending a night in jail for sleeping on the sidewalk.

Like, those days are done.

Those days are over.

All right, Andy, let me tell you about one more person, and let's go back to L.A.

So this is Tracy Park.

She's on the LA City Council.

And because of that, she's heard a lot about housing, about Housing First.

And her perspective is, look, even if we tried to build our way out of this, it'd take a quarter century.

So what do we do in the meantime?

And this issue actually is basically the reason she ran for city council in the first place.

There was just

drug

She'd been living in Venice, and she told me that after Martin B. Boise, there was an uptick in the number of people living on the streets, and things just got worse and worse.

differently.

So when she was elected, she started clearing those encampments, removing the garbage, trying to restore those public spaces for everyone's use and change the reputation that Venice was getting.

camp?

Yeah, I'd say so, but it is not as blunt force as something that, like, Spencer Pratt might be advocating for.

Okay.

So she told me that, like, rather than just show up one day with, like, police and a cleaning crew and heavy equipment to clear out all the tents and mattresses and garbage just, like, out of the blue—

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