Karen Bass

But here's my concern, though.

Back to what we were just talking about.

If you go to our Skid Row area, you are literally talking about in a concentration of about 20 blocks.

You're talking about over 4000 unhoused people concentrated there.

Yeah.

So even though I am proud of the fact that for the first time, by the way, and I should have said this earlier, street homelessness has decreased by 17%.

I, again, have been focusing on the encampments around the city and reducing those, but not by shooing people away.

Here's my concern is that the volume and the scale in the Skid Row area

is very, very difficult because we need to have thousands of units all at the same time.

So what I'm trying to work on right now is how do we have a project that brings in, that we can address the scale?

Because what I don't want to see happen

is the troops come to Skid Row and round everybody up in a alligator Alcatraz type facility.

I don't want to see that happen.

So I'm very concerned about that.

I'm not so much concerned about troops marching up and down our streets.

Like, you know, they did a little bit in June.

June 6th was the day we were invaded.

Okay, so you know the law has changed.

When the Supreme Court upheld Grants Pass, now the police could technically make that encampment move.

Prior to that in our city, and I'm pretty sure in our state too, but definitely in our city, the police can't just do that.