Steve Hilton

These homeless encampments are illegal.

They've always been illegal.

And all these cities and county government, local government in California, they've just sort of put up with it because there's a court case, I don't know, years ago called the Boise ruling.

They said, well, you can't move people

off the streets unless you have adequate shelter available.

And they hid behind that and said, well, and defined shelter as what they call permanent supportive housing, which is an apartment unit that costs like $700,000 or going higher.

That's not what that meant at all.

They could have put people off the streets, taken them off the streets, put them in shelter, got them into treatment.

But the law says you can't require sobriety or abstinence.

I mean, 80 plus percent of people who are homeless have

drug or alcohol addiction or mental health problems.

So it's just this mess that they haven't dealt with.

The state, as governor, you have state law enforcement resources.

You have a police force you can use.

And so I say very clearly, if they won't enforce the law, I will.

And I'll provide shelter and treatment and get people into what, there's so many great organizations that's just ready to do that.

But they've got this attitude,

this mindset of what they call compassion, which is you can't force people to do something.

And the result is this squalor and danger.

And parents, they walk their kids to school and they're literally stepping over dead people.