Karen Bass: “I have fast tracked 42,000 units of affordable housing.”

“And let me just give you an example. Los Angeles made a decision probably 20, 25 years ago to not address street homelessness, to focus solely on building. And granted, I have fast tracked 42,000 units of affordable housing. but it still takes a couple of years. So basically the policy of LA City and LA county was we could accept street homelessness as long as we were building.” (02:22–02:27)

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