Karen Bass

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.

And I would love to engage with you on that.

All right.

Bye bye.

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.