Spencer Pratt reveals radical plan to rehabilitate LA homeless

Spencer Pratt unveiled a radical plan to combat the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles — saying that allowing addicts to leave shelters and head right back to drug-infested streets defeats the purpose.

In a new interview with CNN, the insurgent LA mayoral candidate revealed his strategy to send homeless addicts to rehab centers on federal land.

“You don’t get off these drugs with beds,” he said. “You need support. You need a real solution. And what’s happening? We’ve done it now, what, for 10 years. Their plan does not work. Their experience is complete failure. This is not Spencer saying this. This is every single person with eyeballs driving around LA.”

Pratt spoke about obtaining a large piece of land in “beautiful nature” outside Los Angeles to house homeless people and rehabilitate them.

“If they want to come back to the city, we have a job for them — not just a bed off Skid Row,” Pratt explained. “They’re sober off fentanyl for two days, they go into a bed, they come out right back on to where all the drugs [are]. We need to actually help these people and get that back into society.”

Pratt said he wants to model the program after a career transition facility for veterans in Bentonville, Arkansas.

“You need to offer people a chance,” he said.

Pratt added that the plan is already “in the works” and that he’s met with 30 “literal billionaires” to discuss funding the facility. He also said he’s going to work with “all the top doctors in the world” to make the project “a shining light of hope.”

Pratt also emphasized that mandatory treatment is necessary for addicts.

“It’s time to radically go in a new direction with mandatory treatment. And it’s going to be incredible,” he said. “This isn’t like a jail. This is a place where people are going to go and have a chance to come back to society,” he said.

Pratt has built much of his platform on cleaning up the LA’s streets and making the city feel safe for families.

“Women used to flock to LA because, in LA, anything could happen. Now, women are fleeing LA because, in LA…anything could happen. Time to change the channel. VOTE!!!” he wrote on X Thursday.

He has to convince voters that incumbent Mayor Karen Bass has done an insufficient job managing the homelessness crisis.

In her own interview with CNN this week, Bass shrugged off questions about her pledge to end street homelessness in the city — blaming “bureaucratic barriers” for her failure to follow through on promises she made when first elected.

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