44,000 people are living on the streets of the City of Los Angeles. We've spent over $10 billion in the past decade, a recent audit found $2.4 billion the city can't even account for, and the problem has gotten worse. As the founder of Better Angels — where I've kept 4,000+ Angelenos housed, served 12,000 directly, and am building hundreds of affordable units with no taxpayer subsidy — I will bring that same operational rigor to City Hall, because compassion and accountability are not in conflict.
The goal is to get people off the streets for good, and I've already proven I know how.
Enforce LAMC 41.18 citywide, clearing encampments from schools, senior centers, daycare facilities, parks, and commercial corridors with real alternatives before any action begins so every clearance becomes an intervention, not a displacement. This is not only a quality of life issue, it is also about our children and businesses.
Triggering automatic outreach, rental assistance eligibility checks, referrals to existing prevention programs and legal representation within 48 hours of filing — intercepting homelessness before it ever starts.
Through assigned benefits navigators who secure SSI, SSDI, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, veterans' benefits, and General Relief, recovering dollars that offset city costs and building the income stability that makes permanent housing stick. Queue all city-funded placements on a transparent last-in-first-out basis so we attack homelessness starting with the most addressable cases. According to extensive academic research, many of these people will be able to self-resolve if given access to their entitlements.
Through assigned benefits navigators who secure SSI, SSDI, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, veterans' benefits, and General Relief, recovering dollars that offset city costs and building the income stability that makes permanent housing stick. Queue all city-funded placements on a transparent last-in-first-out basis so we attack homelessness starting with the most addressable cases. According to extensive academic research, many of these people will be able to self-resolve if given access to their entitlements.
Providing incremental private-unit, non-congregant shelter, which is more desirable and effective than unpopular congregant mega-shelters. Ensure on-site services to support clients. This model has already proven to be effective in the city.
Eliminate the treatment bed waitlist by activating dormant licensed capacity at existing mental health and addiction facilities and creating a single region-wide referral and placement system with a targeted 72-hour placement window for every unhoused person seeking shelter.
Separately staffed, trained and funded — to absorb the 60,000-plus homeless-related emergency calls logged annually, relieving the burden on regular fire and EMS companies and building a proper clinical response capability.
