Nithya Raman

Economy
On housing, her campaign calls for roughly tripling the citywide pace of housing construction across affordable, market-rate, social, and shelter housing, pointing to Los Angeles as having among the fewest homes per adult resident of any major U.S. city. On renters, who make up roughly two-thirds of Angelenos, she points to her own council record — capping rent increases, expanding "just cause" eviction protections citywide, requiring faster notice of eviction filings, and passing a Right to Counsel policy for tenants facing eviction — as a model for a citywide renter-protection agenda. On small business, she proposes treating City Hall as a partner with firm permitting deadlines and a single point of contact, and on the film industry, a dedicated City Hall film office with faster, cheaper permitting to help recover production jobs lost to other states and countries.

Governance
On homelessness, she argues current spending lacks accountability, citing figures suggesting a large share of people moved indoors under the current administration's flagship program have since returned to the streets, and proposes a citywide Bureau of Homelessness Oversight modeled on one she created in her own council district, with published performance metrics for shelters and outreach programs. On the 2025 Palisades fire recovery, she has criticized the pace of rebuilding and turnover in the city's recovery leadership, calling for a single accountable point of authority.

Security
On public safety, she describes her approach as rejecting a "binary choice of defunding the police or defending business as usual," proposing instead to scale up unarmed crisis-response teams integrated into 911 dispatch, set weekly mayoral performance reviews of LAPD deployment, strengthen oversight through the Police Commission and Inspector General, and fund community violence-intervention programs.

Immigration
On immigration, Raman says she authored the city's sanctuary ordinance limiting local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, campaigns under the slogan "Immigrants in, ICE out," and has pledged to make Los Angeles the strongest sanctuary city in the country.

Infrastructure
On transportation, she points to voter-approved transit funding under Measures R, M, and HLA and argues the city has been slow to deliver on it, citing her council district's bike-lane record as a model; on climate, she frames public transit and infill housing as the city's main levers for cutting emissions, alongside investment in parks, shade, and preparation for wildfire, heat, and drought.