Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt challenged an ABC 7 reporter during a recent interview over how the city should address people camping on sidewalks, arguing that the problem is tied heavily to drug addiction and failed spending, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.

During the interview with ABC 7 in Los Angeles, reporter Josh Haskell asked Pratt about his plan for the city’s homeless population.

“What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?” Haskell asked.

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Pratt rejected the wording of the question and said many people living on the streets are not simply without housing.

“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,” Pratt said.

Pratt also said that many of the people living on the streets of Los Angeles are not from the city. He argued that people have come to Los Angeles to live outside the system and said the city spends tens of billions of dollars a year on the issue while seeing poor results.

Haskell pressed Pratt on the cost and timeline for building a facility to address the problem.

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“It’s going to take time to build a facility and money … How fast do you think you can do it?” Haskell asked.

Pratt said he had seen prefabricated housing and buildings during a trip to Washington and said those options could be built quickly.

“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,” Pratt said.

Haskell then asked where the facility would be located.

“Where is this facility going to be?” Haskell asked.

Pratt responded, “It’s on federal, beautiful, federal land property.”

Haskell followed up by asking, “Where? In L.A. County?”

Pratt said that as a candidate, he could not yet identify a specific address because he does not currently have authority to represent the city in discussions with the federal government.

“Well, when I’m mayor, I’ll go meet with the federal government, and I’ll get the property. Right now, I’m just running, so I can’t give you the exact address because I don’t have the legal responsibility to go represent Los Angeles and say, ‘Can I have this land?'” Pratt said.

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Reporter: "What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?" Pratt: "Well, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts... These… pic.twitter.com/rLaxyvKF0a — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 25, 2026

The interview was highlighted in a May 25, 2026, article by Mike LaChance, which noted that Pratt’s mayoral campaign has drawn attention online as he speaks directly about Los Angeles’ street encampments, drug addiction, city spending, and the limits of current policy.

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