Karen Bass

They've made their decision.

My role is to make sure that the city of Los Angeles is ready to welcome

thousands, tens of thousands of visitors from around the world, and that all of the venues that take place in the city of LA are prepared.

Well, let me just tell you that one thing that has been very enjoyable about being mayor is that we are all in conversation and collaborate with each other and look at each other's experience.

So actually, my view of San Francisco started with the former mayor,

london breed who really focused on ai she said she wanted it to be the ai capital of the world and i see how he has continued that and i'm sure he will expand it even further looking at his ties in the business community now you know san francisco is a much much much smaller

city than Los Angeles is.

We are so big, 500 square miles, that we don't have one big industry.

I mean, the entertainment industry, of course, is a rock, but so are several other industries as well.

Absolutely.

Well, I ran because Los Angeles was the epicenter for the country in homelessness, especially street homelessness.

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.