Nithya Raman shares blame with Karen Bass for – Latest News
Karen Bass is taking the heat for the 3.4% rise on this yr’s homeless numbers — however Nithya Raman shares the blame.
The socialist member of the City Council constructed her complete profession round fixing the homeless subject, from her profession within the nonprofit sector to her tenure in native authorities.
Through most of that time, homelessness in LA rose and rose. And after a transient two-year dip, it has began rising again.
Raman even chairs the City Council Committee on Housing and Homelessness. She canceled conferences for a number of weeks this spring, as she targeted on her run for mayor.
Karen Bass is taking the heat for the three.4% rise on this yr’s homeless numbers — however Nithya Raman shares the blame. CNN
Raman even chairs the City Council Committee on Housing and Homelessness. She canceled conferences for a number of weeks this spring, as she targeted on her run for mayor. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post
Also this spring, Raman launched a new plan to deal with homelessness. She promised to “eliminate” all homeless encampments in her first time period as mayor — one thing she did not do in almost six years on the City Council.
But Raman isn’t proposing to make use of law enforcement to finish the encampments. That wouldn’t do — not for a candidate who as soon as wished to “defund the police.”
The core of Raman’s coverage is to construct more shelters with the identical quantity of money. But it’s exhausting to consider the council can obtain that, after the town and county have wasted a mixed $3 billion a yr on a failed “housing first” homeless coverage.
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And Raman and her colleagues proceed at hand about $300 million yearly to the LA Homeless Services Authority — an company so troubled that LA County voted to shun it in 2025 and the Trump administration has suspended the authority’s federal grant funding whereas investigating alleged conflicts of curiosity and financial mismanagement.
It’s price noting too that Raman’s allies within the LA chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have their own concepts.
The socialists revealed a manifesto final yr that calls for ending law enforcement in opposition to homeless encampments. They vow to “oppose all legislation, regulations, and policies that criminalizes homelessness or which turn temporary or permanent housing for unhoused people into a de-facto form of incarceration.”
The core of Raman’s coverage is to construct more shelters with the identical quantity of money. But it’s exhausting to consider the council can obtain that, after the town and county have wasted a mixed $3 billion a yr on a failed “housing first” homeless coverage. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post
The socialist manifesto additionally calls on the town to “expropriate privately owned housing” and to undertake a “vacancy tax on housing that landlords have kept unoccupied” — the type of tax that voters in San Diego lately defeated.
Bass is the one in charge, so naturally her efficiency is underneath essentially the most scrutiny.
She ran her complete main marketing campaign on the concept that she had decreased the quantity of homeless people in LA, and that she needed one other 4 years to proceed that progress.
So a lot for that.
Bass additionally tried blaming President Donald Trump — a pathetic effort to keep away from blame.
Just a few weeks in the past, Bass was posting pictures of herself with the president.
But Raman shouldn’t be let off the hook. Both mayoral candidates share the blame.
As Shakespeare wrote: “A plague o’ both your houses!”
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