During a recent interview on ABC 7 in Los Angeles, mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt educated a reporter who questioned his ideas for dealing with the city’s massive homeless problem.
Pratt reminded him that most of the people living on the streets of LA are not even really homeless, but are primarily drug addicts who simply wish to live outside the system.
He also reminded the reporter that the vast majority of them are not even people from Los Angeles but people who came there to live this lifestyle.
Pratt pointed out that the city spends tens upon tens of billions per year on this problem and gets horrible results.
Partial transcript via ABC 7:
Josh Haskell: “What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?”
Spencer Pratt: “Well, they’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts. Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth. This isn’t Spencer making that up. There is places for all of these people to sleep in L.A. No matter what anybody tells you, we have housing and shelter for everyone that’s living on the street. They are choosing to be on the streets because they want to do drugs. They don’t want rules. They don’t want to listen. They want to have animals to abuse.”
Josh Haskell: “It’s going to take time to build a facility and money … How fast do you think you can do it?”
Spencer Pratt: “Literally, I went to Washington and I saw miles of the most insane, prefabricated housing and buildings. I asked all the CEOs of these companies, I said, ‘How long do these take?’ I met with FEMA and HUD … three days. Three days, and all of this is cheaper than trying to … kick senior citizens out of their buildings.”