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Karen Bass: “We got the policy changed. It took a year and a half. So…”

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

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Mayor Karen Bass Interview

Published | Video Starts at 07:59

So we had 3,000 unused vouchers. So I took 50 mayors to Washington, D.C. we went to the House, we went to the Senate, we went to the White House. We got the policy changed. It took a year and a half. So we're now down to about 1200 vouchers. But we have been getting veterans housed. But every step of the way, I keep finding these policies that contribute to the dysfunction of the system. (07:59–08:06)

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Asserts that the number of unused vouchers was reduced to about 1,200 after a policy change.

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