Alan Vazquez

Here’s how we’ll eliminate encampments citywide: 1. Treatment: Immediately deploy street medicine teams citywide. These are clinicians who bring physical, mental, and behavioral health care directly to where people are living — and in my plan, the same clinical team stays with a person from the street to shelter, and from shelter into permanent housing. That continuity builds trust. And trust is what actually gets people indoors and keeps them there. Because 60% of treatment costs are covered by Medi-Cal, this is one of the most cost-effective interventions we have — just $200 per person per month after reimbursement. 2. Shelter: we will restructure how we use our existing motel resources. Right now people are staying in Inside Safe motels for over a year on average. Motel rooms should work like emergency rooms — stabilize people quickly and move them to the next step. Under my plan, people will receive 120 days of intensive stabilization — case management, mental health treatment, document preparation — and then move directly into housing. That means every motel room can serve three times as many people a year as it does today at half the cost per person. 3. Housing: Dramatically expand Time Limited Subsidies — a proven short-term rental voucher program. Under Inside Safe, the city spends an average of $82,420 per participant to fund a year in a motel room — yet less than a third of participants transition to permanent housing. Under Nithya's plan, for around the same cost per participant, people receive 2.25 years of housing and intensive services, with 75% sustaining permanent housing. 4. Accountability: We will also provide rapid response to new encampments — if you report a new tent, someone will be there within 48 hours. And we will publish a real-time public dashboard so every Angeleno can see exactly where their money is going and whether it is working. No more hiding the numbers. No more managing the optics. Just results and accountability. And if something isn’t working, we’ll learn and adjust.

This man is a restaurant owner and he says that Door Dash is a completely different restaurant within a restaurant. Prices are higher when you order from them because Door Dash can take up to 30% from the business. So when you think you are helping that business by ordering from them through Door Dash, sometimes you aren’t. He also says that Door dash sometimes lets the food you ordered sit for for 20,30, even up to 45 minutes before they pick it up. So when you get it and it’s cold and call to complain, it was made on time but they were late. As he says, I know it’s a convenience but I don’t like paying and extra fee. And herring this from him, I don’t think I will ever use it. Why don’t these restaurants just cancel their contract with Door Dash? Do you use Door Dash? Will what he said change your mind about using them? What’s been your experience with them?

Last week, Governor Newsom denied that widespread fraud was occurring in his state. Now, he's trying to claim credit for fighting it. Totally incoherent—he is clearly worried that fraud will sink him.

California is again leading the charge against large-scale identity theft and hospice fraud. Today, we're taking decisive action against 14 providers who tried using stolen identities to bill Medi-Cal for nonexistent hospice services.

Homelessness in LA is a humanitarian crisis. And our response isn't working. The city has the money to fix this. But we are not moving urgently enough to use this money on what works and demand that every dollar we spend moves as many people off the streets and into safety as possible.  Angelenos have voted three times to tax themselves to respond to this crisis with services and housing. What's been missing is someone willing to do the hard work to build a *system* that really works. I'm running to change that. Read my full at the link in bio.