Jason

You can actually make changes in public service that makes people's lives better

How great is that?

I think the state of California should lead the nation in everything that we do.

I think the state of California should have the best housing, it should have the best school system, the lowest crime rate, we should not have homeless living on the streets, we should have opportunities for people to grow a business, raise their family, feel good about life, be enriched, and we should be in the top

of every category that you want to measure quality of life.

If you say we're the fourth largest economy in the world, which our elected officials say very often, then act like it and the people of California should be benefiting from being the fourth largest economy in the world.

It has.

Well, my approach was simple when I ran is you can't allow encampments on the street, but you've got to give people who are on the streets an opportunity to have a productive life.

So give them the services they need, build the housing that they need.

We are spending in the city of Los Angeles.

$900,000 per person that they're removing from the streets.

$900,000.

Per year?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

There's billions and billions of dollars wasted.

Redirect that to organizations that have incredible track records of being successful in Los Angeles.

of housing people, giving them the services for mental health and drug addiction.

And the first thing you do is you do not allow the sale of drugs on the street.

Right now we do.