Karen Bass

I've worked with unhoused patients.

I have a different view of this, I think, than most people.

This might be an overgeneralization for me, but I believe that a lot of people that have been in this field for a long time know housing, but they don't necessarily know the people, if you know what I mean.

Because everybody talks about mental health and substance abuse.

I'm concerned about diabetes and cancer and high blood pressure.

All of those things really can lead to people being homeless when their health care collapses.

And they can't afford, you know, and they wind up missing work because they're not taken care of.

And so I think that there are a lot of reasons why people wind up on the street again.

But the truth of the matter is we're not sure what happens to them because the system is not in place to track them.

Speaker 1 Well, I think, you know, I mean, we we know the president pontificate.

I think that what his plan is, is there will be military involvement in the Olympics.

I actually do not believe that is unusual.

But to me, that does not mean troops walking up and down our street.

I think the president is very invested in the Olympics and the World Cup.

being successful.

And he knows that having troops march up and down our street is not the type of environment that you want to have for the world to come here.

And so I imagine he's going to have a big presence during the Olympics, as most presidents do around the world.

But but I consider that blustering speech that we're used to from the president.

I don't see them as the same thing at all.

I don't.