HenryMantelforLA

🏢We ranked the TOP 100 PROBLEM RENTAL PROPERTIES in the City of LA Top 3 addresses with the most housing violation cases: 🥇636½ N Hill 🥈11700 W Wilshire 🥉6650 W Forest Lawn Look up violations for any residential address, Dec 2013 - Nov 2025: prp.lacontroller.app

Spoke with another CD5 resident yesterday that’s considering moving out of California because, despite he and his wife making good money, there are no opportunities for homeownership. Whole generations have been robbed of the chance at economic security in LA, it’s devastating.

An amusing part of this campaign has been watching an incumbent who has spent the last four years bending over backwards for NIMBYs pretend to be pro-housing. You voted against allowing for more seven-story buildings near transit *six weeks ago*. The hypocrisy is stunning.

This image has a key lesson for housing advocates. Story time...🍿 I live in Katy's district, and help run a grassroots pro-housing neighborhood group (@WestsideForEv). In 2023, a 24-story building was proposed near transit in this district (1050 La Cienega). Mixed-use, on a vacant lot, with a public pocket park, would singlehandedly double the amount of dedicated Affordable Housing in the area. Still got heavy NIMBY pushback and wasn't clear if it would get through planning commission even though it would probably be illegal to block it. We supported it. We were on good terms with Katy as we had endorsed her, were aggressively supporting her key priority (a 30-ish bed homeless housing facility in my neighborhood) and got ~70 petition signatures from people in the area in favor of the 24-story building to counter the argument that the "community was against it". At the hearing, staff report was that all the NIMBY claims were baseless and approval recommended. Katy said the building was "too tall" but her hands were tied by state law, etc. so she didn't officially oppose. The building was approved. Okay, we'll take it. We kept working with her (successfully) on the homeless housing project. Unfortunately, she rapidly became worse on housing, perhaps because she feared a NIMBY challenger. She led the movement to roll back LA’s ED1 initiative (streamlining for 100% Affordable Housing projects) in areas with "Historic Preservation Overlay Zones" (which IRL cover lots of non-historic parts of LA), delayed meeting with local housing orgs who'd supported her until after the rollback was codified, and then offered nothing new on increasing housing despite LA home production continuing to crater and having promised to build a lot of it in her campaign. She voted to oppose SB79 allowing ~7 stories of housing near train stations. When it passed anyway, she led the effort to hobble and delay implementation. Etc. We were getting nowhere. Then I decided to help campaign against her. @HenryForLA, a Tenants Rights Attorney, wanted to run on a pro-housing platform. I started helping run the digital operation. We're very much underdogs (she is an incumbent who has literally 10x our funding) but we have some viral successes, got endorsements from pro-housing organizations, are being recommended in an increasing number of voter guides, and are criticizing her housing record publicly. Now, suddenly it's night and day. She is literally posting pictures of 2 *67-story* towers and saying "more of this please." Someone who delayed legalization of seven story buildings by transit *six weeks ago.” Who largely ignored housing advocates even when we'd actively fought for her key priorities. She hadn't even posted on twitter in years! All this is to tell housing advocates: Run candidates. Organizing around projects, speaking up for them, etc is good. But if your elected officials aren't giving you the time of day, running candidates against them is like having power tools. You have no idea how responsive government can be until you are publicly running to take their job and telling people how you'll do a better one. Oh, and please support @HenryForLA. You can trust we like tall buildings; we also did six weeks ago.

YIMBY LA is ready for the June 2 primary. Our endorsements: @nithyavraman — L.A. Mayor @MarissaRoy_LA — L.A. City Atty @JoseGUgarte — C.D. 9 @HenryForLA — C.D. 5 @dylankendall — C.D. 13 Sara Hernandez — S.D. 26 @JohnEricksonWH — S.D. 24 Full voter guide: yimby.la/voter-guide/ju…

This is absolutely correct! If we're serious about reducing our dependency on fossil fuels and reversing climate change, we need to legalize building dense, multi-family housing in more of LA. Spreading out has caused immense environmental harm, we need to literally grow up!

Honored to have the recommendation of @KnockDotLA !

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms in CD5, especially my own! Since starting this campaign, my mom has been my biggest supporter and I’m forever grateful for all of her help and guidance.

Grand opening of the D Line at La Brea and Wilshire! This was amazing to experience in person, it is such an awesome reminder that we can still do big things!

I am so very excited for this! Years and years of work, time, activism, construction, and effort to expand the D Line and now it's finally here. Now if only it were legal to build more housing near the stations to make it more convenient for more people to use 🤔

@moseskagan @enuffisenuffla Happy to meet in person or talk over the phone! The character limit makes technical policy discussions difficult and I can’t spend all day on social media unfortunately.

@enuffisenuffla I'm sort of avoiding engaging w him, bc, when I've tried, he sort of dances around the key issues

4 points for responding. Respect. -1 for easy generic non specific answers. -1 for not acknowledging drugs . 2/4 . Let’s go deeper on this. And who else has questions for Henry… maybe @moseskagan ?

@enuffisenuffla @moseskagan Hard to get into specifics with the character limit and I consider drug addiction treatment as covered by mental health services but I’m happy to discuss further if you’d like to message me! You can message me through my website: henrymantelforla.com

@enuffisenuffla Wilshire west of Fairfax? Streamline permitting to get those dilapidated buildings re-developed for more housing and invest in mental health treatment, shelters, and permanent supportive housing to get people off the street.

Gonna give @HenryForLA a chance to weigh in here. What’s your plans for this disasterous block in CD 5 specifically ? unfortunately Oyler isn’t on X

The Primary Elections are just around the corner, and we are partnering with the @LACountyRRCC to make it easier for you to vote. This year, there will be ballot drop boxes located at 10 Metro stations! Learn more about vote by mail: lavote.gov/home/voting-el…

Proud to see Henry endorsed by YIMBY Los Angeles! Great to see LA’s premier pro-housing organizations backing grassroots candidates who stand up for our values. We are close to getting matching funds, which’ll be huge. Help keep the momentum going: secure.actblue.com/donate/henry-m…

It's remarkable how our political establishment messed up so badly that hundreds of thousands of people decided that *LOS ANGELES* wasn't worth it anymore. Cultural capital of the world with perfect weather 95% of the year and 200k people said "I'm out."

Had an excellent time discussing the issues affecting CD5 and Los Angeles at the CD5 Candidate Forum this morning at the Ebell! With ballots arriving next week, voters should be asking one very important question: is LA a better place today than it was four years ago?

The Metro D Line is finally coming! Join us, @MiracleMileDems , and @streetsforall for a D Line pub crawl, visiting several local bars all along the new D Line route! Next Saturday, May 9th starting at 4 PM, meet us at Tom Bergin’s 840 S Fairfax Ave, just down the street from the D Line new Wilshire/Fairfax station. From there at 5 PM we’re hopping on the D Line and will ride to Wilshire/La Brea to All Seasons Brewing (800 S. La Brea). At 6:30 PM, were getting BACK on the D Line and will heads towards Koreatown and beyond! All fans of public transportation are welcome! Link in bio to RSVP 🔗🔗

#BreakingNews: A May Day march is currently underway in Los Angeles.

The song of the life triumphant Through the kids who die.

But the day will come— You are sure yourselves that it is coming— When the marching feet of the masses Will raise for you a living monument of love, And joy, and laughter, And black hands and white hands clasped as one, And a song that reaches the sky—

With May Day tomorrow, I want to share a poem about the struggle of organizing and fighting for a better world that moves me deeply every time I read it: Kids Who Die by Langston Hughes. 🧵 allpoetry.com/poem/14326876-…