When President Donald Trump speaks about America’s blue cities, he paints a bleak picture—one of chaos, decline, and despair. He talks about cities like Los Angeles as if it’s a lost cause, a place people have given up on.

But those of us who actually live in cities like Los Angeles can tell you: the image the president is painting could not be further from the truth.

Los Angeles is not broken. Los Angeles is not adrift. Los Angeles is not a hellscape. Los Angeles is an economic engine, a bastion of diverse cultures and storytellers, and home to millions of proud Americans. What’s more, Los Angeles is making real, measurable progress on the issues that people once thought were impossible to solve.

And our story is bigger than just our city. It’s about the importance of local government to deliver results, even when Washington is consumed by division and dysfunction. It’s about why local solutions to local problems have never mattered more—for both our residents and the future of the Democratic Party.

For decades, Los Angeles—like so many across the country—has faced a systemic homelessness crisis. The problem didn’t emerge overnight, and it will not be solved overnight. But we are finally turning a corner. Homelessness in Los Angeles is declining. Street homelessness is down by 10%. That’s not just a statistic—it represents thousands of people who are no longer sleeping on sidewalks or in cars, thousands of Angelenos who finally have........

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