them leave. “There’s tons of money that goes into homelessness, particularly in Los Angeles,” Marston says. “My budget was almost a billion dollars. But the money comes with such confined requirements that it’s almost impossible to spend. If you give me a billion dollars and the ability to spend it, it would be a different story.”25 It is hard to hear Marston’s story without being reminded of Nicholas Bagley’s argument that liberalism has become obsessed with procedure rather than with outcomes, that it seeks legitimacy through rule following rather than through the enactment of the public’s
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