Karen Bass: “New York City has 80,000 homeless people and 97% of them are…”

“But let me just end with this. Los Angeles made a decision probably a couple of decades ago to not deal with street homelessness. New York City has 80,000 homeless people and 97% of them are in some form of shelter. We adopted a rigid, dogmatic policy that says everybody needs permanent housing. Now I agree with that, but I don't think you leave people on the street while you're building something.” (08:33–08:40)

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