If you need to call the Mayor directly to address a problem, it’s evidence of a broken system. You should not need the Mayor’s direct cell phone or hope for a pothole request to go viral on social media to fix a problem. Vote Nithya Raman for a city that works.

Here’s how we’ll eliminate encampments citywide: 1. Treatment: Immediately deploy street medicine teams citywide. These are clinicians who bring physical, mental, and behavioral health care directly to where people are living — and in my plan, the same clinical team stays with a person from the street to shelter, and from shelter into permanent housing. That continuity builds trust. And trust is what actually gets people indoors and keeps them there. Because 60% of treatment costs are covered by Medi-Cal, this is one of the most cost-effective interventions we have — just $200 per person per month after reimbursement. 2. Shelter: we will restructure how we use our existing motel resources. Right now people are staying in Inside Safe motels for over a year on average. Motel rooms should work like emergency rooms — stabilize people quickly and move them to the next step. Under my plan, people will receive 120 days of intensive stabilization — case management, mental health treatment, document preparation — and then move directly into housing. That means every motel room can serve three times as many people a year as it does today at half the cost per person. 3. Housing: Dramatically expand Time Limited Subsidies — a proven short-term rental voucher program. Under Inside Safe, the city spends an average of $82,420 per participant to fund a year in a motel room — yet less than a third of participants transition to permanent housing. Under Nithya's plan, for around the same cost per participant, people receive 2.25 years of housing and intensive services, with 75% sustaining permanent housing. 4. Accountability: We will also provide rapid response to new encampments — if you report a new tent, someone will be there within 48 hours. And we will publish a real-time public dashboard so every Angeleno can see exactly where their money is going and whether it is working. No more hiding the numbers. No more managing the optics. Just results and accountability. And if something isn’t working, we’ll learn and adjust.

.@LadyMRod takes the opportunity to call out her colleagues for sitting on motions & preventing the Council from being able to debate them while also directly calling out @mhdcd8 for refusing to ensure transparency in the ongoing a Charter Reform process (5+ months since intro’d)

It was a beautiful day to celebrate the renaming of Pacoima Wash Natural Park after an extraordinary leader and trailblazer- now officially known as the Cindy Montañez Natural Park.

My grandfather worked in the fields 18 hours a day, but the most important thing he cultivated was unity. It’s a force so powerful it can lift a kid like me from a farmworker’s house to Speaker of the California State Assembly.

Editorial: La Opinión apoya a Imelda Padilla para concejal de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles dlvr.it/Sn9T0K