And the So, Well, Welcome to the show Tribili Family. We are joined by two very special guests this

week. Returning guest Tracy Rosenbaum and their co-author, Leonard Vilchis, that I said your last name, right? Is it Vilschis?

Perfect. The best pronunciation so far. Oh great, Christ.

I'm very excited to interview both of you. I love the book. It was, you know, Tracy had hyped it up to me for months and it's kind of like a

how-to guide. It's a lot of things. It's a critique. It's a how-to guide of how to organize tenant unions. It's, you know, there's all kinds of ways we can take this conversation, but to like ground us to like start us off here, what I wanted to do was just

make some observations from just this past week mixed with some that you include in your in your book so um first thing on the docket we have a

tweet from LA Mayor Karen Bass the sheet is it base or bass bass bass bass okay it was me I'd say bass but Bass? Bass. Bass.

Okay.

It was me, I'd say bass, but.

Oh yeah, 15 people used to live here.

Yes, it was a tweet, yes, it showed an empty sidewalk and a triumphant message of victory.

It said 15 people used to live on this sidewalk.

Yes.

Very, very disturbing image, a very disturbing message. Like you could could if it was if this was a compassionate person you

would read that as like a oh Jesus like that's a very you know dark and and depressing

observation but no it's from her point of view this is a

triumphant victory and but you know just like I said going through the docket here I also have this is just from the

Wall Street Journal a statistic US is on track to set a new record for unhoused people with

over 650,000 people living on the streets.

The, uh, wait, it's 500,000, no?

Uh, 650,000, it's 650,000, not 50,000. Did I say 650? What did I say?

I heard 650,000.

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