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Politicians. they always talk about homelessness is is a low housing problem. no, it is a drug addiction and mental illness problem. rather than addressing mental illness and building synchrpsychiatrichospitals whero for long term stays in treatment and addressing it that way, they will talk about how we need to build more housing. how we need to send checks to people, that never solves the problem. >> harris: there is also a hunger problem in this country pair we have a tremendous amount of peo...

No country, including the United States, can afford to spend $500,000 for shelter per homeless person.

Couple of weeks, and by the way gavin, you probably shouldnt b throwing stones from your glass house because your state of california leads the country an people exiting your state, running away from your state, people are leaving in droves, the population is in a massive decline, youre state leads the country in homelessness, the cost of living, taxes, open air drug markets, and you said this in 2008, that you had a plan to fix it all. what happened to your plan? take a look. >> we believe fund...

The Point-in-Time Count takes place in every corner of the country and over the past 12 years has found 550,000-650,000 people experiencing homelessness

To fix a problem, you need to know its scope. To do that, you need sheriffs, social workers, volunteers, flashlights and 10 days in January.

Fundamentally that food solves hunger, that shelters solve sleep and that housing solvesif homelessness. and if were going to solveare o the problem,ing tolve the of te out on the streets that wehome definele as homeless, we better solve the housing problem if arg to have an impact. what and thats why we established this framework. what we call a 10 year planan to end chronic homelessness in san francisco. francisco. >> ten-year plan to end that? it is 10 year plan to end that. its only gotten w...

We haven’t built enough housing because we, the voters, have made it too difficult to build that housing.

Bankman-Fried "commingled FTX customers' funds at Alameda to make undisclosed venture investments, lavish real estate purchases, and large political donations" alleges the SEC.

>> when i came to the united states, i start a new life from zero. in afghanistan, i worked with -- but when i came here, i started with a low level job. housing problem, no transportation, a language problem for my wife. >> you have such good rapport with the families and stuff. >> when i met mahmood and his wife, they had nothing. everybody was still sleeping on the floor. we provided basic necessities. assigned them to family mentors. and then its just been this journey. >> they helped me how...