Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back

Spencer Pratt: I live next to the one you don't know existed, the Palisades Reservoir, 5 million gallons next door to my house that the fire department would do almost not weekly, but bi-weekly drills. They would connect up there. They would make me move cars if they needed to, bring the hoses. I was always saying to my life, well, this is annoying, but gosh, we're set. They have a thing where the helicopter could dip in there, not the Sandy Yanez reservoir that she was referencing that she lied about and said it was for drinking water, which obviously if you Google, LA Times will show you when it was made, it was for wildfire protection. That's why it has cisterns. That's why it has helicopter dip site because it's for wildfire. So I was very confident. I have a video of myself filming, can't wait till the helicopters get here, not realizing that they drained that, Janice Quinones, the LADWP, drained that reservoir in June of 2024. I called the fire department directly because I have their number. I'd say, hey, we just see one truck up here because, if the fire comes around, there's just this one place of dead brush. And if you put water on it, won't come and hit all these houses. And they said, we have no assets available. I'm like, whoa, that's scary. I never heard any sirens. People like real locals will tell you if you talk to me, there was no sirens. I talked to the chief, Bobby Garcia, at the US Forest Service about what he thought went sideways the day of. We don't know because the after action report has been edited multiple times by Mayor Bass, which she denies, but the LA Times stands by their reporting. And he said the initial fire wasn't made skinny. You're supposed to attack the fire on both sides. And that did not happen because ready for this, you know, Mayor Bass brought up like, oh, there was no planes. No, Mayor Bass, you never called in fixed air wing support. She never did. You know why? She was in Ghana. And you know who was supposed to do it? Her deputy mayor, but he was on house arrest.

Spencer Pratt: The count for homelessness, when Mayor Bass in the debate was like, it's down 17% from like, these are the most cooked numbers. Even the RAND Corporation says what they're saying is 30% increase. But they just drive around and they go, one, two, three, 4, 5, 6. They're not going in under these encampments and bridges and bushes and unzipping these tents and going into the sewers. So we don't even know the count.

Spencer Pratt: So the building goes on the market for $11 million. Six days later, the city with our tax money gives Weingart $29 million, $28 million to buy this same building that was $11 million. There's nobody to this day, years later, being housed in this. Weingart has developers paying $750 a square foot. When I've talked to developers and contractors, it should be $250 a square foot. So they make this money with these developer kickbacks. They have all these shell companies that, oh, this is our developer. It has nothing to do — I'm ready for one of my favorite parts. With that $30 million, who do you think owns that building in Westwood? Not the taxpayers, Weingart. They kick senior citizens out of 1 in San Pedro. And they're going to put hardened criminals, same thing. This one's like $80 million. So what they do is they take our tax money, they take grants, they take federal and state grants, and they cook up a little plan. Here's this, we're going to house 80 people, yet they don't tell us that that's $700,000 a person. But everyone's making these people, the NGOs get $1,000,000 salaries. The people below them get 500. Nobody's actually helping anyone because ready for this, there's no requirement to house people. And then in the state of California, this is the craziest part, with the Home Key rules, the state won't give the city a lot of the money if you require the people to be off of drugs. If you say you can't do drugs in this housing, oh, then you can't get the access to this money.

Spencer Pratt: So the great news about running for mayor of LA is everyone wants to save LA. Everyone wants LA to be #1. The meetings I'm taking every week now, the lunches, the brunches, the dinners of beyond successful people that are willing to work for a dollar a year, pause their companies to come in. Just last week, I probably met with 10 billionaires that are ready to come in and build LA up to be the number one city in the world. So when they say, oh, you have no experience? Well, what I do have is humility. I'm humble. I know I've never ran the second largest city. I know smart people who have done it. We need to be bringing in the CEOs that have ran the biggest corporations in the world to come in and work with, you know, because they'll tell you, no, you need to know the city at a certain level. You bring those people in, but the people that execute.