THE BOTTOM LINE – After years of record spending, rising overdoses, and persistent encampments, the mayor’s remarks revealed a City Hall that has become better at explaining failure than delivering results.
Words matter especially when they come from the mayor of America’s second-largest city.
Karen Bass didn’t simply explain why some homeless individuals use methamphetamine. She inadvertently exposed the flawed philosophy that has defined Los Angeles’ homelessness strategy for years: explain the crisis, empathize with the symptoms, spend more money, and too often fail to confront the root causes. That is why her comments resonated so deeply…