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L.A. mayoral race: Raman claims ouster as housing chair is political retaliation
Raman accused the mayor's administration of shielding signature programs from oversight while citywide homelessness continues to rise.
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Staff Reporter - Tue, 11, Aug 2026
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Nithya Raman / X
Los Angeles City Councilmember and mayoral challenger Nithya Raman has claimed that she has been stripped of her role as chair of the Council's influential Housing and Homelessness Committee in “political retaliation” by Mayor Karen Bass following her call for an independent audit of the city's homelessness response.
In a video posted to X, Raman accused the mayor's administration of shielding signature programs from oversight while citywide homelessness continues to rise.
“I called for an audit of our homelessness programs in Los Angeles and now have been removed as the chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee," Raman said. "I might be getting punished for running against Mayor Bass, but Angelenos are the ones who are paying the price for these political games,” she said.
She alleged that the mayor has blocked the independently elected city controller from doing an audit of her signature homelessness program, Inside Safe, that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of the public's money, while overall citywide homelessness figures increased.
Also Read: Nithya Raman's district bucks LA street homelessness trend
Mayor Bass' top City Council ally removed me as Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee.
— Nithya Raman (@nithyavraman) August 10, 2026
The Mayor may be trying to punish me for challenging her, but Angelenos are the ones who pay the price for these political games. pic.twitter.com/CvzjoOujPW
“But in my district, it went down by almost 50%, and we did that the hard way. We did outreach, we matched people to beds, we got people indoors. That's the work that needs to happen across the entire city,” she said.
Calling out real estate and corporate interests backing the mayor, Raman pointed to her committee's work passing the city's strongest tenant protections in 40 years, including historic caps on rent increases for rent-stabilized units.
“On housing, corporate landlords and Airbnb have spent millions of dollars trying to get this mayor re-elected,” she said.
“Meanwhile, our committee has fought back and put in place real protections for renters, passing some of the strongest protections in the city in 40 years, including lowering allowable rent increases in rent-stabilized units for the very first time,” Raman said.
She said Mayor Bass and her allies are protecting “a deeply broken status quo, one that is not serving any person here in the city of Los Angeles, but I know that together we can change it.”
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