L.A. mayoral candidate Rick Caruso wants to get 30,000 homeless people off the streets within his first 300 days in office.
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso has made it a point that, if elected, he will make the homelessness crisis one of his office's main focuses.
"I take a complicated problem, distill it down into multiple solutions, build the best — and the brightest of a team — and work every day and never give up to solve it," said Caruso, whose critics have said he oversimplifies issues."I've done this before.""Under the charter, the mayor can declare a state of emergency," he said.
Despite Caruso's optimism, Blasi said 15 councilmembers coming together to back this idea is farfetched. One of Caruso's ideas for tackling the homelessness crisis is to convert the 300 surplus parcels of land in Los Angeles County into temporary homeless shelters. Caruso also claimed the calls for defunding the police following the death of George Floyd hurt the department's morale and recruitment.
"I think 'defund the police' is an unfortunate moniker for this debate," he said."By the way, when Caruso was on the police commission, they were cutting back on police too and that wasn't a bad thing. They were making up for it with overtime."
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