Katie Porter

So the...

There's some really good research on this.

This is not something that we don't know what to do about, but we have not had the willingness from our leaders to scale it up.

So the very most effective way to keep someone in their home or in their apartment

is to give them direct cash assistance, period.

That is the very most effective way.

Everything else is complicated and expensive and slow.

So let me give you an example.

Somebody scrapes up their rent because they got evicted, right?

And then they can't afford any food.

They can't afford their bus fare.

They're late to work.

They lose their job.

Scraping up the rent didn't do any good.

So there's really good research on this.

The Audacious Foundation just funded a huge project here in California to do pilots all around the country.

The average cost of this kind of cash foreclosure or eviction prevention is $6,000 a family.

That's the median cost.

Compare that to a million dollars or $800,000 a unit.

So long before we get to the interim housing, which I think is right, we should keep doing that.