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Karen Bass: “There was not a decrease before at all because there was no…”

Featuring: Karen Bass, Democratic | Mayor of Los Angeles | California

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Full Interview: Mayor Karen Bass Makes Her Case for Re-Election

Published | Video Starts at 03:45

So why should people trust you that you're going to be able to get to the hundred feet? Because let me just tell you for the first time, we've had a decrease at all. There was not a decrease before at all because there was no commitment to get rid of street encampments. and we had encampments all over the city. So I would ask for people's trust in the sense that we have absolutely made progress. (03:45–03:53)

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Asserts that there was no previous decrease in street homelessness due to a lack of commitment to removing street encampments.

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