Karen Bass: “We are strapped financially.”

“I think, you know, the idea of from vacancy to vibrancy is a plan and a strategy that we need to use to really promote that commercial involvement. We need to look for ways to provide incentives. But as you know, We are strapped financially. It's pretty hard to think of financial incentives, but we can do other types of incentives like expediting, ending the red tape.” (14:43–14:46)

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