LA Mayor Hopeful Caruso Would Declare Homeless Emergency
- Billionaire developer says he would clear encampments
- Poll shows Karen Bass leading the race of more than two dozen
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Rick Caruso, the billionaire developer running for Los Angeles mayor, said he would use emergency powers to rapidly clear homeless encampments and provide low-cost shelter for 30,000 people now sleeping on the streets if elected to head the second-largest U.S. city.
“Day One the plan is I’m going to walk into my office and declare a state of emergency,” Caruso, 63, said in his first interview with Bloomberg News since officially joining the packed mayoral race last week. “We’re going to treat this like a natural disaster.”