Katie Porter

But give them that money to make that housing transition.

I wish you could ask Chad Bianco about this.

So, I mean, the state can think about doing some of this in our own programs.

So replacing five and six different programs designed to help you meet your basic needs with something called CalNeed or CalNecessity.

It's one program, it's one chunk of money, and you trust families to figure out what they need to do to stay afloat.

And by the way, poor people...

Low-income people are really, really good at juggling money because they have to be to exist.

And the opposite perception that we can't trust people with cash, we can't give low-income people cash, is racist, it's sexist, and it's wrong.

And it costs us a fortune.

So you could take that same approach.

So broadly, let me just say, I drive a minivan, you might know.

The license plate is oversight.

So I've thought a lot about this.

We do oversight backwards in our state and in most government agencies.

It's burying people.

It's death by a thousand paper cuts, but they still bleed out.

You are much better crushing, really crushing cheaters.

And trusting most people to do it right in the first place.

And that would be my approach.

I read for fun.