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Nithya Raman Puts Community Second in Her Homeless Housing Plans Details DEEGAN ON LA-This is Part 3 in a series about Councilmember Nithya Raman (CD4).  It was a facile promise for Nithya Raman (CD4) to make, in the final days of a hard campaign. Raman told voters in a last-minute mailer that she would  “use city-owned parking lots to create safe parking, with services, safety, and security, that will help our unhoused neighbors, not push them out of their cars and onto our streets.”  That configuration has now morphed into affordable housing units for the ...

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Recall backers say Raman's office is inexperienced, unresponsive and too politically radical. The councilwoman responded that she's focusing on a "broad progressive agenda."

The famed Hollywood sign was altered overnight to New Year's eve to read Hillyweed, said L.A. Police Officer Christopher Garcia.

L.A. residents have launched an effort to recall Nithya Raman after just six months in office, over homelessness and "defund the police."