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Karen Bass: “We did not need Sacramento to tell us what to do and to…”

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

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Councilwoman Harris Dawson is the perfect example where on Crenshaw Boulevard you see hundreds of units being built, but the single family homes are not disrupted. There's ways to do it. We are on our road to do it. We did not need Sacramento to tell us what to do and to mandate what we were doing. Thank you, Mayor. Councilwoman, here's why SB79 and other state laws keep coming down on us. Because the city of Los Angeles is not taking responsibility for the demand for housing. (40:14–40:20)

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Asserts that Los Angeles does not need state mandates to manage its housing policies.

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