Weeks into her tenure running the the country’s second-largest city, L.A. Mayor Karen Bass spoke at length on “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast” about her views on a host of housing and homelessness issues. Read the Q&A:
Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe initiative targeted an encampment that served as home to an estimated 98 people. By Monday, 82 had moved indoors.Do you think the city’s construction of market-rate housing helps or hurts the homelessness and housing affordability crisis?I do think the city needs everything. Well, let me let me qualify that. I’m not sure if the city needs more luxury housing. But luxury housing and market-rate housing are two different things.
I have never understood who lives in all that luxury housing. I do know that there’s a high vacancy rate, or put it this way, there’s absentee owners. People who don’t even live in the United States who own a lot of property here. That’s just hard considering all the people on the street. So the only type of housing I don’t think we have a huge need for is luxury. Maybe some but not a huge need.We’re going to give you a series of statements where you can only answer true or false.
The house I lived in — I got offers all the time. “We will give you cash money for your house.” So I watched the elders in my neighborhood sell their homes, but then their kids couldn’t come back to the neighborhood. But how do I tell them not to walk away with over a million dollars?Proposition 13 is a necessary protection for homeowners who would otherwise pay too much in property taxes.the residential component. It’s the commercial component. Voters didn’t realize a couple of things. No.
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