Karen Bass

And I am proud to say that after year after year of homelessness increasing in the national trend, frankly, was an increase in homelessness of 18 percent.

We've had the exact opposite in Los Angeles, where we've had a decrease in street homelessness of 18 percent.

This is a dysfunctional

system that has been dysfunctional for at least the last three decades.

And so what I hope to accomplish by the end of my second term is establishing and creating a functional system that we get people off the street.

We know how to do that, but we have to keep them off the street

permanently, and we have to prevent more people from falling into homelessness.

So public safety is another key issue, and crime has been reduced to levels going back to the 1960s.

And then basic city services.

So when you think of public safety, basic things like street lights.

We've had a rash, like many other cities, of copper theft.

And so now pushing that furthers our environmental goals of changing from copper to solar.

And I just announced a program a couple of days ago to replace 60,000 copper wire lights with solar lights.

What the city had been doing for years and years is just replacing copper lights with copper lights that continue to be stolen.

So basic quality of life, basic city services, homelessness, public safety, the things that I have worked on that we have made absolute objective progress in.

I want to continue and take it across the finish line.

Thank you for having me on.

L.A.

Mayor Karen Bass signing a proclamation to change the last Monday of March to Farm Workers Day.

This is a difficult day.