PoliticsWho is Nithya Raman, Los Angeles’s next mayor and democratic socialist?

Urban planner and political outsider Nithya Raman defeated Karen Bass in a close race to become Los Angeles mayor. She has close ties to Hollywood progressives but a complicated relationship with the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. Her priorities include housing, homelessness and tenants’ rights.

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