Karen Bass

And I would love to engage with you on that.

All right.

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Well, let me just tell you that we are a city that loves our cars.

However, we have spent the last three or four decades building out our public transportation system and so encouraging people to use public transit, encouraging people to carpool.

We certainly hope that this ends soon enough because gas prices were already high here.

because we have chosen to tax ourselves to improve our environment.

So adding on the international events and just the uncertainty from Washington, you can only imagine the concern that has when affordability

is the number one issue we're dealing with here, period.

absolutely number one is making it easier to build and so i did that within my first couple of weeks in office i signed an executive directive to fast track the building especially of housing and we have 40 000 units that are currently going through that process now with several thousand actively under construction but once we applied those lessons to affordable housing

Then we began to apply those lessons in terms of cutting red tape to other types of building, whether it's commercial, residential, etc.

And so that has helped.

Now, of course, the other thing that is creating a lot of difficulty is just the larger macro economic issues.

Well, let me just tell you, even before that, the entertainment industry is one of our foundation industries.

And so I have certainly been doing everything to make sure that filming doesn't continue to leave and, in fact, increases in our city.

And so the first thing, of course, was the advocacy on the tax credits on the state level, which did finally pass and get signed.

I was involved when I was speaker of the assembly there.

many years ago in creating the first tax credits.

But I meet with the industry regularly and they came up with a variety of things that the city could do to make filming easier.

I put all of those into policy, put them into action,