All Angelenos deserve safe, affordable, and stable homes. Families should be able to put down roots, workers should be able to live near their jobs, and young people should be able to grow up without the fear of being displaced from their neighborhoods. The affordability crisis that Los Angeles is facing is especially extreme in CD11. Families are being forced out of the district they have called home for decades. Despite this, the current Councilmember brags about stopping the building of affordable housing and allowed the largest mass eviction in the history of Los Angeles to be carried out by a predatory landlord who donated $575,000 to support her campaign. Instead of kicking the can down the road and leaving the housing crisis for future generations to deal with, we must right this ship and we must act with urgency. In office I will:

• ‍Increase and Protect Our Housing Supply

• Build Affordable Housing For Workers, Families, Seniors, and Artists

• Cut Red Tape to Build More Housing, Faster

• Expand Affordable Homeownership Opportunities

• Promote New Social Housing Models in the City

• Enforce and Strengthen Tenant Protections

• Regulate Corporate Landlords and the Speculative Market

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As Councilmember, I am committed to addressing homelessness by implementing proven solutions that will actually eradicate homelessness as a systemic issue in the long term. Our policy tools will meet people’s needs, and benefit both housed and unhoused members of our district. The rising cost of housing is the major driver of homelessness, which has only worsened in cities like Los Angeles, where housing costs far exceed wages. Regardless of how effective any city is at helping people to get housed, the problem will never be solved if we don’t create systems to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. This is why we have paired this work with our robust housing policy. Instead of repeatedly spending millions to temporarily move tents, we should invest that money into diverse housing options, robust service provision, and trust building. In office I will:

• Prevent Homelessness (please see our Housing and Tenants Rights Platform!)

• Build More Interim Shelter and Permanent Supportive Housing

• Resolve Street Homelessness, No More Shortcuts 

• Address Vehicular Homelessness

• Spend Public Money Responsibly and with Full Transparency

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There are many immigrant communities that call the Westside home. These communities have shaped the culture of our district since the very beginning of the city. Protecting our immigrant communities must be a top priority for every elected official in Los Angeles. For over a year our city has been under direct assault by Trump’s fascist administration, and our vulnerable immigrant communities have been targeted over and over again. The people of Los Angeles have fought back, organizing community patrols and providing support to families who have had loved ones kidnapped by ICE or CBP. Many of these people have in turn been targeted for their efforts to protect their neighbors. The Trump administration is threatened by our way of life in Los Angeles, and they want to sow fear in our city, but Los Angeles will not bow to cowardly fascists. In office I will do everything in my power to protect all Angelenos, and defend our culture of inclusion and joy. I will:

• Expand, Enforce and Defend Our Sanctuary City Status

• Fund Legal Representation for Immigrants

• Strengthen the Safety Net for Immigrants

• Expand Immigrant Civic Participation

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When the local economy is strong, all of us can succeed. Local businesses tend to hire locally and spend locally, which allows money to circulate in our communities, instead of benefiting large, distant corporations. Communities with strong local economies are better able to adapt to large-scale economic downturns or supply chain malfunctions because they rely primarily on local capacities. When we envision a healthy neighborhood it includes good jobs and businesses run by people we know, friends, family, and neighbors. To achieve this we must:

• Implement a Stronger Safety Net

• Support Local Small Businesses

• Strengthen Worker Protections

• Support Unions and Unionization Efforts

• Support Our Open Air Workers

• Expand Affordable Childcare

• Protect Our Creative Economy

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Over a year after the devastating Palisades Fire that forced over 100,000 individuals to evacuate and destroyed 56.3% of structures in the Palisades leaving tens of thousands of individuals displaced, our community still faces a long road to recovery. The fires not only destroyed structures, but lives were also lost, thousands of our community members remain displaced, and we lost anchoring institutions and small businesses. Our recovery and rebuilding efforts must focus on immediate short-term needs for fire survivors, while also planning for a long term recovery that ensures we rebuild the Palisades back stronger and more resilient. That means we must:

• Ensure Continuity of Support for Palisades Survivors

• Guarantee a Resident-Focused Rebuild and Recovery

• Care for Everyone Impacted by the Fires

• Build A Climate Resilient Long Term Recovery Plan

• Prioritize Community Safety and Preparedness

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Los Angeles is on the front lines of the climate crisis. The consequences of a fire-prone climate, rising heat, drought, and increasing levels of pollutants are increasingly material. The combination of our climate, geography, land use puts lives at risk, with low-income renters, seniors, children, and frontline communities hit hardest. Angelenos deserve better. We need shade, cooling, and safe housing. We need clean air, carbon-free power, and protections that put people before polluters. We need good green jobs, thriving wetlands, creeks, and mountains, and water systems built for resilience. Now more than ever, it is imperative we build a Los Angeles that is responsive to the present and prepared for the future. That means we must:

• Invest in Climate-Resilient Infrastructure

• Provide Access to Clean, Reliable and Affordable Energy for All Residents

• Support Green Workforce Development

• Ensure Land Stewardship, Ecosystem Protection and Public Access to Greenspace

• Nurture a Resilient Water Future

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All Angelenos deserve safe communities but simply continuing to increase the LAPD budget, which already comprises 46% of our discretionary funds, isn’t the way we will create the safe community we all deserve. We cannot police, prosecute, and imprison our way to achieving real safety for everyone. We have tried tough-on-crime methods, again and again, all over the U.S, and they haven't worked. Systematic reviews of policing strategies show that simply increasing police presence produces only small, if any reductions in crime, with no consistent evidence of sustained safety gains. Not only has an over-reliance on the LAPD failed to increase feelings of safety, but it has disproportionately harmed Black and Brown communities. For many Angelenos, this status quo causes intergenerational trauma, degraded public health, economic extraction, dehumanization and, all too often, unnecessary deaths. What we haven’t tried is sustained investment in the social programs, infrastructure, and community-based violence interventions that have been proven to both prevent crime and create a feeling of safety for communities. 

The truth is, right now we require police to handle tasks that are outside of their area of expertise. We require sworn officers to respond to mental health calls and non-criminal calls, including those related to homelessness. Most Angelenos don’t realize that only 8% of 911 calls are actually for violent incidents, which would require armed response. We cannot continue to rely on the LAPD as a catch-all. Even the police union agrees with us; they have identified twenty-eight 911 call types that police should NOT respond to any longer. An over-reliance on police to address all societal ills leads to a less effective police department and reduces capacity for the tasks the police are equipped to address. This overreliance also increases response times and has demoralized officers as they are repeatedly put into roles and situations they aren’t prepared for. We should instead build on the successful alternative response models that have proven to be a more efficient use of resources. 

At the same time, the work of creating safe, connected communities cannot happen in isolation. Community safety and the protection of civil liberties depend on the stability of our communities. Real community safety starts with a robust safety net that provides for the well-being of all Angelenos. As reflected in our housing and economic policy platforms, ensuring access to stable housing, economic opportunity, and strong support systems is foundational to building safe, connected communities

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People today are more disconnected and lonelier than they’ve been in decades. Here in Los Angeles, our city’s design has played a role in that isolation. Sprawling neighborhoods with few ways of getting around without a car impact our relationships, our sense of community, and how we engage civically. The smallest civic unit is the neighbor, but the design of our sidewalks, our streets, and our public spaces determine which neighbors we actually encounter, and how we are able to engage with them. If we want stronger communities, we have to build infrastructure that actually brings people together.

Right now, we are far from that reality. Our transportation network is a mess and disconnected. Too many of our major streets act like highways, designed to move cars through neighborhoods fast. There are 50,000 sidewalk repairs requests sitting in 311. Access ramps can take more than a decade to build, often with little to no dedicated funding. Our streets are riddled with potholes and there are not enough crosswalks for our kids to cross the street safely. Cyclists and multi-modal commuters on the westside are struggling to get around safely. And nearly every day on average, in LA City, someone loses their life in a traffic accident on our public right-of-way. These conditions aren’t random, they are the direct result of poor policy choices.

We can choose something different. Our city is built from the street up. How our streets function sets the tone for all of the development that comes after. When our streets are designed well, the rest of our city can be better planned too. 

We can build a Los Angeles where our streets serve everyone, not just those who have a car. Venice Boulevard and Manchester Boulevard can be reimagined as great streets, not corridors to speed through, but places to gather. Spaces like Windward Plaza can be activated as a center of culture, community, and creativity. A transit-first, pedestrian-prioritized approach will help us create a connected district and City. When paired with transit-oriented housing development, it helps us meet our climate goals and encourages civically engaged communities.  

As a Councilmember, fixing our streets and improving our transportation network will be a top priority for me. 

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Angelenos have become rightfully frustrated with our local government. Unresponsiveness from the government not only makes us feel unheard or unseen, but it also prevents us from making progress on key city issues, like maintaining basic working infrastructure, housing our unhoused neighbors, or building housing altogether. The truth is, the City Council has the power to streamline our government, but special interests often rely on these archaic systems remaining in place. 

Good government starts with accessibility. It shouldn't take a Herculean effort to reach a council office or to give public comment at important hearings or meetings. Those who have tried to give input at City Hall know that giving public comment can seem like merely shouting into the void. Instead, residents should be able to easily track how their priorities were taken into consideration, what our city is doing, and how it is making our lives better. Only when leaders are connected with community members, dedicated to weighing voices with equity, and committed to full transparencycan we build a representative system of governance. 

When transparency and accountability are established, we can build a government that not only does its job but does its job effectively. Currently, city departments are siloed from one another, and often no one is specifically tasked with moving a project forward. Our policy tends to fail at the implementation level because we lack the robust oversight needed to follow through on promises to constituents. When no one is in charge, the needs of our communities are neglected, and we fail to deliver even the most basic city services. In the second-largest city in the nation, we cannot settle for this.

These goals are not out of reach. They can and will be accomplished here in our city. We just need elected representatives, like myself, who are willing to stand up for the people they represent. Then we can get to work!

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