Matt Mahan

I will use every tool in the toolbox, legal, budgetary, bully pulpit, whatever tools we have to fight back.

I do want to go back to the place I started, which is I also think that we've got to take ownership of our shortcomings and start solving highly visible and visceral problems that affect people every day.

I mean, this may sound superficial, but when people drive around

Los Angeles and see the state of the freeways and see thousands of people living outside in misery and tents and trash and fires and graffiti, it just undermines our credibility.

It undermines trust in government.

It makes it that much harder to stand for something different that people can believe in.

And I'm not pretending that the Republicans have got it all right.

They've got plenty of problems and red states have plenty of problems.

We do a better job in many ways of being economically inclusive and certainly more welcoming socially and politically.

But I just...

I think we've got to also fix our fundamental problems, starting with the high cost of housing.

And until we grapple with that, I don't think we're going to be a very effective resistance.

Yeah.

How many hours do you have?

Wednesday, Thursday?

Yeah.

I think one is just across the board, our housing issues come down to a lack of supply.

So we need to build more housing.

And that will slow down the rate at which the

the value of housing goes up, which will help moderate property tax increases.