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Dealing with the homelessness problem, the drug problem, so many crisis happening in states like california and new york, that should be the priority. >> emily: i cannot think of a more destructive, more disproportionate element of performance activism than this is, than it would be if it was implemented, it would cost three times as much to implement wlo they worthy of beneficiary. it is disheartening and typical of the democrats that they say they care about native americans, for example, why did it take president trump to sign savannah act that addressed epidemic of missing and murdered ind...

>> no, and those were some pretty lofty goals that she outlined in that first speech yesterday. i mean, the homelessness problem here, we've got more than 40,000 people living on the streets in los angeles and that became the central issue in this race along with crime and also corruption at city hall, but the challenges that she faces are immense, you know, in terms of building affordable housing, getting wealthy neighborhoods to agree to allow that housing in their neighborhoods, and she's talked about her experience as a coalition builder, someone who can come in and kind of shake up city h...

So i will be stepping in to lead at a time of crisis and it will remind me of my days in sacramento when i served as speaker when the state was undergoing the worst recession since the great depression. and so i'm prepared to step up and do that on day one. >> let me follow up on that, mayor-elect. you're vowing to solve l.a.'s rising homelessness problem and plan to declare a state of emergency in the city. do you have the buy-in to do that or is this merely a symbolic gesture? >> no, no, no, no, no. it's absolutely not a symbolic gesture. i think the angelinos are tired of symbolic gestures....

The past year and this is something that ylan was talking about. we've seen an increase in rent in the hot phoenix area where people have moved into the area even during the pandemic and rent going up by 21% and i spoke someone in the scottsdale area who saw their rent go up by 20%. you don't have the option to re-sign because guess what? everything else is going up contributing to the homelessness problem there. >> on the jobs market things look good, but take a look at this statistic. job postings down 28% in the state of pennsylvania since march. that tells you that the story is starting to...

Welcome back. voters in los angeles, will decide if vacant hotel rooms should be given to the homeless. it is a bold solution to the city's homelessness problem but those in the hotel industry say the proposal is in sane. cnn's nick watt as a closer look at the controversial plan. >> reporter: in los angeles county, more than 60,000 people are homeless on the average night. and more than 20,000 hotel rooms lie empty on the average night. see where this might be going. >> it is just, it is insane. it isn't going to solve the problem. >> we think this is one part of the solution. by no means do ...