KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the Iheart Radio app.

I'm Phil Schumann from Fox 11 News, sitting in for John Cobalt this afternoon.

With you until 4 o'clock. We're going to talk with Jason Nathanson about weekend entertainment.

Alex Stone will be joining us to talk about the bizarre story of Venezuelans,

allegedly taking over Colorado towns.

Do you remember the Menendez brothers, Lyle and Eric, they're serving life in prison without the possibility of parole?

Netflix has a new multi-part series that has debuted on that.

We're going to talk a little bit about that bizarre story.

But one of the core issues as we approach the November election, one of the ballot

initiatives is Measure A, which would double the existing sales tax to fund homelessness

solutions here in Los Angeles County.

And joining us on the phone now is Jamie Page, who's the editor of the West Side and

the Valley Current, websites, which

are doing a lot of interesting and groundbreaking stories on the homelessness issue.

The latest headline is, after spending $550 million, over 70% of Los Angeles counties Project Homekey homeless rooms are vacant.

Jamie, thanks for joining us. What can you tell us about what you've learned in this story?

So nice to talk to you, Phil. Thanks for having me on. It's been a couple of months that we've been driving to locations across the county

and just taking inventory of these places that taxpayers have bought and that our

homeless population desperately needs.

The county bought 2,157 units over years times.

And currently there are 1538 that are empty.

I'd like to point out in this reporting that when we did our investigation into this,

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