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Lefty mayoral challenger Rae Huang says she can't take another four years of Karen Bass

Nov 15, 2025

Huang, a housing advocate and pastor, said she was upset by Bass's attempt to scale back LA's 'mansion tax.' She also criticizes Bass's Inside Safe program, calling it a bandaid solution that's very costly and only puts people into temporary housing.

'That moment broke something in us': LAHSA's homeless services workers say they've been left in the dark amid change-over

Nov 15, 2025

Workers at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority who do outreach to unhoused people, and help get people housed, have stuck it out while some of their colleagues have left for more stable jobs. They worry they'll be left hanging.

Speak Up! teams advocates and mentors to break 'bad sitcom' narratives around homelessness

Nov 15, 2025

The Speak Up! program was started in 2013 to educate more people about the "permanent supportive housing" model. It's since been trying to make space for people, who have been homeless, to hold key roles in the "homelessness sector."

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 10: New York's Zohran is Big in LA

Nov 12, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes LA's anti-Olympics movement getting abandoned by a one-time close ally, Mamdani inspires local politicos, Working Families Party making inroads in Los Angeles, and LA city controller advertises his departure from the Democratic Party.

LA's progressive pols look to push local 'power structure' leftward, amid celebrations of New York's Zohran

Nov 11, 2025

Zohran Mamdani voted for himself not as a candidate of the Democratic party, but of the Working Families Party. The local California chapters of the 'third' option for mostly Democrat types are also trying to make inroads in lefty politics here.

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 9: LA residents brace for federal shutdown 'hammer'

Nov 3, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes some things LA County residents should know about the pause on CalFresh food aid, LA City Controller Mejia dropping a scathing critique of LAPD's armed mental health response team, and The LA Reporter coming to the Really Really Free Market in Van Nuys.

LA watchdog critiques LAPD’s armed response to mental health emergencies

Nov 3, 2025

Clinicians who respond to calls along with police officers must wait until people are bound in handcuffs before they can intervene, help de-escalate situations before they get out of hand, according an assessment by LA City Controller.

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 8: 'They're entitled to something better'

Oct 27, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes the closure of a research group that helped get LA's $15 minimum wage and change our understanding of homelessness, the LA Fed backing caps to rent hikes under LA's rent stabilization law, and bigger fine sought for council candidate's ethics violation.

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 7: A week of drama-rama between LA city leaders

Oct 20, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes the LA City Council waging a public battle with City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, a councilwoman agitating for charter reform commissioners to reveal their side-convos, and more potential budget cuts on the horizon for LA city.

LA Councilwoman vents to charter reform commissioners, saying she thought the panel’s work was being used to advance an ‘agenda’

Oct 20, 2025

Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who has been agitating for her transparency motion to be taken up, gives unorthodox remarks to commissioners holding a meeting in her district.