Karen Bass: “People living in a tent, people who had nothing actually had…”

“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. This includes systematically confronting old, outdated policies that actually stop people from being housed. Listen to this. People living in a tent, people who had nothing actually had to prove, prove that they were poor before they were eligible for housing. So I want to know, how do you prove no income? How do you prove nothing? So we fought, and Washington removed that barrier. Here's another one, A veterans.” (24:14–24:25)

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