Michael Blake: “You have families who are literally waiting months, if not…”

“Move this clear up the backlog. There's not a good reason there. And to your earlier question, if you do that, you substantially address the cost of living crisis because You have families who are literally waiting months, if not years for payments where they know the money is already there. Right. When you talk about the true cost of living and making sure that people have sort of a basic wage or basic income, should city hall be involved in redistribution to that extent?” (32:45–32:54)

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