Mayor Eric Garcetti hopes to reach a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration on a joint plan to help combat the city's swelling homeless crisis.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday that he hopes to reach a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration on a joint plan to help combat the city’s swelling homelessness crisis when heGarcetti said a final deal was still days or weeks away but expressed optimism that the two sides were making progress toward a deal to provide federal resources, including land, to augment local efforts to erect more shelter space for people living on the streets.
In his comments to the mayors’ conference, Garcetti downplayed hopes of a massive federal aid package to helps cities and states fight homelessness.“There’s no cavalry coming from Washington,” he said. “But we will not solve this locally without our state capitals and our nation’s capital.”g for the city’s burgeoning homeless population. Despite his aspirations for higher office as a Democrat, he has been eager to court help from the Trump administration as the crisis has worsened..
“We’ve got a lot of work to do across the state. We’ve got 151,000 folks on the streets and sidewalks, more than any other part of the country,” Newsom said at a news conference Wednesday.
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