anita chabria covers california state politics and policy for the los angeles times. sacramento, which is where she is right now. anita, thanks so much for joining us. this is not a few issue for california. with this when he was mayor of san francisco. why now? why is he saying this is at the top of the agenda for the next year? anita chabria: think there's a couple of reasons you're seeing it happen so visibly right now. one is not just that we have the largest homeless population in the country. unsheltered populathe largest so we have more than 100,000ll people actliving on our sidewalks, on our street corners, in our parks, in places where they are visible to our voters andur residents every day. it's a problem that's in the rural areas, it's in the suburbs, it's in front of our schools and our libraries and our grocery stores. and so, really, you're seeing a governor and a legislature that can't ignore it because it is visible every day. john yang: and he's getting pressure on this from the president, the president saying, ifthalifornia can't solv, the federal g