Katie Porter

And I, thanks to Mayor Mahan, got the chance to see some of that.

And I've seen it in a few other cities since.

But we've got to stop.

We've got to put the shovel down on homelessness.

We're just make the problem keeps getting worse.

And so I think that those kinds of programs really work.

And California should not have 97 different programs with 52 different forms and nine fill in the blank questions.

We just need to give people a handful of money for a very short period.

And most people are not permanently homeless.

They become permanently homeless because they lose the housing they have.

So if they could stay put for just a little while until they get better, where they find that new job,

or they get back together with their partner, whatever it is, they will never find themselves in that situation in the first place.

And by the way, I did a lot of this when I worked on the statewide foreclosure prevention, eviction prevention program with Kamala Harris.

This was a big part of what we asked the banks to do was they had cheated people into these loans.

They were cheating them on the way out.

My research exposed that.

But a big part of what we said to the banks is give them cash because

so that they can figure out then whether they're going to be able to keep this house or they're going to need to make a transition.

Give them $10,000 and $20,000.

In that case, the banks were wrongdoers, so we could ask for big amounts.