Karen Bass: “By the time I took office less than two and a half years…”

“Year after year, the broken system allowed the crisis to grow. In 2016, voters approved Measure H8HH to build 10,000 units of housing. At the time, LA had about 25,000 unhoused residents. But By the time I took office less than two and a half years ago, that number had grown to more than 46,000 unhoused Angelenos. On my first day in office, I declared a state of emergency on homelessness, specifically to inject disruption and change to fix the broken system.” (23:37–23:49)

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