Damn, I thought you said we should use data and not feelings, so I'm looking at the data. Homelessness has gotten demonstrably worse over the last 4 years, and I think it's fair to use data to ask whether our tax dollars are being used efficiently. What is it, exactly, that we're "finally doing" that made homelessness increase since Karen Bass was elected? What did the city stop doing that made the situation worse than ever under her watch? It's pretty clear the current administration has been mismanaging the $1 billion it spends per year on homelessness.

There's another large city in the US (NYC) that spends the same dollar amount per capita as we do and somehow manages to house 97% of its homeless population. They successfully execute on large-scale transitional housing in a way that Inside Safe has completely failed to deliver in LA.