Tom Steyer

There is shared food and laundry services, and there's wraparound services.

And what I believe is true is that the majority, not 100% of the people on the street are willing to go into emergency interim housing to the tune of somewhere around 70%.

In fact, when we look at the strategy we've had, which is shelters and permanent assisted housing, it has failed.

Those permanent assisted housing, as you said, in terms of the cost of low-income housing, it costs somewhere between $750,000 and a million dollars a key.

So what I'm talking about is something that is much cheaper, much faster, that people like much, much more than the strategies that we're employing now.

And in fact, deal with the biggest issue we have, which is being on the street itself is incredibly dangerous and causes multiple problems.

So my actual goal is to keep people off the street, get people off the street for their sake to be compassionate.

And also because...

Look, SB 79, Buffy Wick's bill, which I strongly supported and continue to support, is about building densely around public transportation.

For that to happen and for people to want to live there, we need safe, fun cities, walkable cities where kids can walk.

And it's absolutely critical that they feel safe walking down that street and that, in fact, that's the kind of fun community Californians want.

Look, I actually think that's where we're, you know, flexibility in housing is how I would describe what you're saying.

And so...

The obvious thing right now is ADUs, additional dwelling units.

It's a flexible way of sticking a new unit in your backyard.

Originally, it was for your, you know, a family member, but now it's very much as something you can rent out that's additional housing for your community.

So to a very large extent, emergency interim housing, flexible.

It's honestly, to me,

I hate to say it, but it sounds like a college dorm.

And so to a very large extent, it is taking away from a very rigid sense of what housing is supposed to look like somehow that our existing system is supporting without taking into account that we're in a new world.