Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: The Recipe for Creating America's Happiest City | All-In Live from Miami
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Forty third mayor of Miami, served two terms since 2017, and his tenure is gonna end in September because he's term limited. Although I hear these days that's flexible, please welcome Francis Suarez. We
were ranked the happiest city in America, the healthiest city in America. The formula for success is simple. Keep taxes low, keep people safe, lean into innovation.
How are things going in Miami? Obviously, you know, we talked to you a couple years ago. We had our first all in summit here. Yep. And, you had a no nonsense approach that you thought was gonna work with the homeless Sure. Challenges that we're seeing. I think candidly, we discussed a large portion of the homeless problem in these major cities is, an addiction problem. And, you know, giving a junkie a home doesn't exactly get them off the street. It just doesn't work. And you've you were one of the first people to say that plainly. How are you dealing with it? Is it gotten worse? Is it an intr
So in homeless specifically, we are in an eleven year low. We did our census we do two census a year. We do one in January, '1 in in the summer. And our our January census had us at an eleven year low at 546 homeless unsheltered homeless in the entire city of Miami. We have a couple thousand sheltered. And, I actually raised money on an annual basis, as a mayor's ball. I did my mayor's ball last year, and this year, I'll be doing it in May 31 to end homeless. We wanna be the first major American city to have zero homeless, and we think we can get there. We call it functional zero. You do? And
Those 500 individuals, who are categorized as homeless Yeah. How many of them are suffering from mental illness and or self medicating slash addicted to drugs?
A very high percentage. I would say eighty percent plus. I mean, that's sort of anecdotal. But when and I've been out to the streets. I'll I'll I'll I'll be out there before my my homeless ball now on May 31. I'm actually gonna spend a a night out on the street. And when you talk to them, when you engage in them, a a vast majority of them are, unfortunately.
K. So let me double click on that. This problem wasn't as acute before the superdrugs, meth, like, the the the serious meths. Yeah. Like, well, the really serious ones they're making out of
Fentanyl.
And fentanyl. Right? These this combination seems to be you know, we we had people addicted to heroin like Miles Davis and like Philip Philip Seymour Hoffman who produced incredible art and were addicts for thirty years, and they and they went in and out of it. But this drug is pernicious, different, deadly, super addicting. How much of the problem are those two drugs specifically if you double clicked on it?
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