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Karen Bass: “We know how to get people off the streets.”

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 05:00

You can house multiple people where they do have a modicum of privacy. And one thing that we have specialized, that we have absolutely conquered in my time, which is We know how to get people off the streets. We know how to get them to accept the services that they need. And the only people that refuse at this point, and it's a very small number are people who are so profoundly ill they don't even know they're homeless. (05:00–05:03)

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