Karen Bass

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.

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.