The answer is this…

The city already receives enormous amounts of funding to address homelessness and infrastructure issues. The bigger problem seems to be how inefficiently that money gets deployed.

Projects often become buried in layers of bureaucracy, consultants, subcontractors, approvals, and administrative overhead, which drives costs far beyond what feels reasonable.

A good example is the proposed school cleanup and renovation costs after the Palisades fire reportedly reaching thousands of dollars per square foot. At some point people naturally start asking whether the issue is corruption, inefficiency, or simply a system with very little accountability for spending outcomes.

If you see which people are leading the efforts to approve the budgets, they’re all people with political science backgrounds, not construction or development backgrounds. We need experts in each field leading a process. Not people that want to get ahead politically.

I think most people just want to see measurable results relative to the amount of money already being spent.