Karen Bass: “This is a system that has been in place for more than three…”

“But at the same time as I was focused on getting people off the street, I also had to understand what was wrong with the system. This is a system that has been in place for more than three decades, and it is profoundly dysfunctional. dysfunctional. And so what I had to spend time doing was discovering what was dysfunctional and how do we go about changing it.” (06:42–06:51)

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