Karen Bass

And that is because of a series of lawsuits that advocates waged, which it is not that I disagree with those lawsuits, but I wish that there was more focus on a solution because no one wants it.

I don't care how big your heart is or what your beliefs are.

Nobody wants an encampment on their front lawn.

And but but I'm going to tell you the secret to encampments.

Number one, we have an outreach team all with lived experience.

But the secret is you take everybody together.

That was not what the city was doing before.

They were picking individuals out and leaving the encampments there.

And I think a lot of people did not respect the fact that encampments are small communities.

The reason why we don't have a problem getting rid of the encampments is because we house everybody.

As a matter of fact, the problem we have is that when we go to remove an encampment, we'll count ahead of time like there's 15 people.

But then on the day, on moving day, there's 25.

Why?

Because unhoused people have cell phones.

They call their friends and say they're really going to house us.

They're not just moving us.

So we have learned that we have to have extra rooms when we go resolve an encampment.

Yes.

And next time, let's talk about crime.

Because Democrats do not do that well.