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Claims that Los Angeles, as well as Raman, are moving too slowly in addressing homelessness
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20260617 I guess Raman intends to persuade LA County to provide these street medicine teams ("advocate vigorously").rtf
20260620 ChatGPT says Raman’s record as a Los Angeles City Council member is generally associated with supporting additional housing and streamlining development approvals, especially residential projects.rtf
20260620 Encampment resolution works well when a community who formerly lived together in an encampment transitions inside together.rtf
20260620 Nithya’s plan for preventing homelessness: tripling housing production, providing emergency $ assistance to ppl, “services across communities”, partnership with County services (which are?).rtf
20260620 Raman claims that she would use state and Measure A funding to pay for more TLS without more $ from city’s general fund, but she’d be shifting money around, not using funding currently idle.rtf
20260620 Raman’s pdf “Assumes that within 120 days, participants will have stabilized and be ready to move onto their next step” (meaning a 100% success rate?).rtf
20260620 Since other (??) City-funded interim housing programs generally operate at or near full capacity.rtf
20260620 Under my plan, people would stay in stabilizing motels with intensive onsite services for just four months. By the 120th day, they would have received intensive stabilizing support – both from on-site case workers.rtf
20260620 Unrealistic claim - My plan starts by immediately expanding Street Medicine teams citywide.rtf
20260620 unrealistic assumptions in Raman's homelessness PDF.rtf
20260623 Mayor Karen Bass prepares to leave the scene where city workers cleared a large homeless encampment in Van Nuys last year.rtf
20260627 Pratt alleges that a building that was on the market in Nithya Raman's district for $3M sold for $8M to an NGO and that that constitutes theft of taxpayer money.rtf
20260628 Raman required the city to be notified of every eviction filing, which lets the government use the Mayor’s Fund to write checks to these people to keep them from becoming homeless.rtf
20260630 Host says Raman cites a 54% reduction in homeless encampments in her district.rtf
20260630 Raman - Bureau of Homelessness Oversight that tracks funds to ensure money is spent on outcomes. We still have not staffed that bureau, those departments which are headed by the mayor.rtf
20260630 Raman - I spearheaded the process that led to the strongest renter protections passed in the city in forty years.  We lowered allowable rent increases in rent-stabilized units for the first time in forty years.rtf
20260630 Raman created the first data on every bed across “the system”. The beds went from 80% to 94% full. She created the first data on every HHH unit and “made sure that those went from 72% full to over 90% full”.rtf
20260630 Raman had to get grants from outside sources to create something – a system that “guarantees outcomes” on something that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on – that the city should be resourced to do.rtf
20260709 What is Raman’s position on drug use among the homeless todo1.rtf
20260725 Goldberg claims street homelessness was cut in half in Raman's district todo0.rtf
20260726 Raman converted Highland Gardens Hotel to “the first non-congregate shelter facility in the district”. This may be the one she mentioned on the Ben and Emil Show.rtf
20260726 Raman says that vouchers are cheaper than shelters and more effective for bringing people indoors.rtf
20260726 Raman writes that 61% of the homeless population is on the streets.rtf
20260726 There is a congregate shelter in Raman's district, though it opened before she assumed office.rtf
20260804 At least Raman mentions the possibility of a person becoming self-supporting [subsidies].rtf
20260809 Raman - LA doesn’t have an office tasked with tracking money spent on homelessness and ensuring that the homeless are moving on to their next step as quickly as possible.rtf
20260811 Raman says in a video that there’s an incentive to move encampments from one district to another. Grok says that’s because constituents complain to the councilor, who facilitates the sweep.rtf
20260813 I think people like Raman who focus so much, as a result of their job, on homelessness to the exclusion of most other things, you get someone who disregards other people.rtf
20260818 Raman has stood by her opposition to a ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools, opening herself up to attacks from Bass and Pratt.rtf
20260818 The data showed citywide street homelessness increased nearly 8% compared to the previous year, while it declined 49% in Raman’s own district.rtf
20260822 If Raman has done a good job on reducing unsheltered homelessness in her district, how would she fail to do so at the city level?.rtf
20260823 Raman reduced street homelessness via four shelters in the district, begging Inside Safe to help, using PSH and time-limited subsidies. They applied for and gotten multiple grants from the state.rtf
20260825 Raman noted that post-1978 construction is exempt from the rent cap. [One of the ways that rent caps increase homelessness is by reducing supply].rtf
20260826 The Economic Roundtable study of Raman’s RSO [rent cap] didn’t create quantitative model to determine effect on citywide median rents (or then translate those into homelessness outcomes).rtf