HenryMantelforLA
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HenryMantelforLA
@HenryForLA
I am a candidate for Los Angeles City Council, District 5. I am a Tenants' Rights Attorney who was raised in LA and wants to solve the Housing Crisis.
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Ağustos 2025
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@HenryForLA Oregon also did this. Do you agree that inclusionary requirements shouldn’t be allowed unless govt fully funds/offsets the cost?
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Turns out, it really is all about zoning.
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I just took my own car to get serviced. $7,000 estimate for repairs, more than the car is worth. Needing a car in LA is a huge burden that disproportionately impacts poor and working class Angelenos. We need to be moving away from cars as quick as we can.
Heather Long@byHeatherLong
The cost of buying and owning a car has soared since the pandemic. Navy Federal's Cost of Car Ownership Index is +41% since January 2020 CPI is +26% since January 2020 Wages are +31% Almost every aspect of buying, owning, insuring and repairing a car has jumped. And now we are in the midst of another gas price shock. ‘It’s Just Crazy’: High Car Payments Make Ownership Feel Impossible by @onlykailyn nytimes.com/2026/03/16/bus…
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@teragramus To form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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@HenryForLA In 50 words or less say what government is for in our nation
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The housing crisis is hitting everyone hard, including seniors. More and more seniors are getting evicted because of this crisis, we need to be building a lot more housing for everyone!
FOX 9@FOX9
Rising rent prices across the U.S. are putting growing pressure on retirees living on fixed incomes, with many now spending close to or above the recommended 30% of their income on housing. fox9.com/money/financeb…
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@JMGregorchuk John, you're blaming me for a lot of things that I had no hand in or control over and putting a lot of words in my mouth. You want to sit down and talk this out sometime?
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You're surprised because you dont understand the systems youre trying to fix.
You want to make it easier for me to build and then send me into bankruptcy with your 6-9 month eviction process.
You want to upzone the city and then make it impossible to redevelop due to tenant protections and forever leases.
You claim you care for working people but the mom and pop landlords were absolutely destroyed by the eviction moratoriums your industry pushed for.
You're industry is destroying housing via ULA on multiple fronts. Taxing development and then using those taxes to destroy the housing providers thru free attorneys who delay the eviction and hide records of non paying tenants.
You claim to support renters, but your policies force landlords to have intense scrutiny before acccepting a tenant or else they'll end up meeting someone like you in court.
Over and over your policies punish the people who solve the housing crisis.
I hope you'll recognize this if you win.
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Kind of wild that I’m running mostly on eliminating Single-Family Zoning and permitting reform, allowing for more home construction than anything the incumbent has ever even dared advocate for, and still get accused of “destroying the capital markets that enable home building.”
John Gregorchuk@JMGregorchuk
PSA - CD 5 race is between an incumbent who's cutting regs and a tenant protection attorney who is destroying the capital markets that enable home building.
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@rob_bellamy1 So, despite being far more pro-housing than the incumbent, because I've advocated for a policy that wouldn't effect development anyway (which the incumbent supports as well, btw), capital is scared of me? Wild times we live in.
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Who wants to spend years of their life and millions of dollars to build when at the same time you’re pushing for stricter rent controls and heinous eviction processes.
So great, make it legal to build!! The majority of people with capital to build won’t build here anyway because of the reasons above that you advocate for.
And I know what you’re gonna say. Rent controls don’t affect it. But really, they only don’t affect it *yet.*
The people with money don’t want to take that risk and that’s why they don’t build here. Landlords in LA are framed as the enemy. You do a better job makes rent affordable in Texas than you do in Los Angeles.
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One thing I think needs to be clear: zoning isn't just "one piece of the puzzle," it's the picture on the box, the framework that the puzzle is built into.
Right now, it's illegal to build more housing in more than 70% of LA. Until that changes, the housing crisis will persist.
Robbie Bellamy@rob_bellamy1
Not sure why this is hard for you to understand. Zoning is one piece of the puzzle. The second is having individuals willing to spend time and money to build. Why on earth would someone want to spend millions of dollars and years of their life to build a project only to have you strangle it away with your policies when completed? They won’t. They will take their money and time and use it in Texas, continuing to keep housing affordable there and keep housing unaffordable in Los Angeles.
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@rob_bellamy1 @otter401 Because zoning is what makes it outright illegal to build in more than 70% of LA. We’ll never build enough so long as that remains true. Please, inform me, which policy on my platform would strangle projects away when theyre already completed?
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Not sure why this is hard for you to understand. Zoning is one piece of the puzzle. The second is having individuals willing to spend time and money to build. Why on earth would someone want to spend millions of dollars and years of their life to build a project only to have you strangle it away with your policies when completed? They won’t. They will take their money and time and use it in Texas, continuing to keep housing affordable there and keep housing unaffordable in Los Angeles.
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@otter401 It’s because I’m a Tenants Rights Attorney who has daily interactions with tenants that I know this: housing is already a disaster in LA because of a long history of actual redlining, which is only going to be solved by building a lot more housing.
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I'm an LA developer who each and every day deals with the capital markets throughout the US to finance my projects.
You're a tenants rights atty who has zero interaction with the capital markets and therefore zero knowledge about the capital markets.
The capital markets have redlined LA largely because of policies that you support and would enhance.
You would be a total disaster for housing in LA.
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@ViennaYachtClub Increases in the cost of filming is part of it, the housing crisis is another. It's nearly impossible for artists in LA nowadays to make art and the rent.
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@HenryForLA Well how did it get to the point that the primary industry of Los Angeles is no longer viable in Los Angeles?
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It is absolutely imperative that we save the film industry in Los Angeles. Everyone who works in film and television should be able to afford a home in LA. Art makes life worth living and I want to make LA more affordable so the people who make art can keep doing so.
DUNE@dunemovie
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@barrykane760 Good news: legalizing and streamlining housing construction is most of my platform!
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@HenryForLA LA needs to build a lot of apartments and houses and reduce both the costs and regulations substantially.
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@weedthepplsocal Because the industry built this city and personally I'd like LA to remain the cultural capital of the nation, where creatives and artists from all over can come and pursue their passions and make great art. Also, practically, LA weather makes filming much easier.
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@HenryForLA Why doesn’t the film industry move somewhere new in CA. Why does it have to be LA?
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@trogglodytes If you want homelessness to get worse, sure. I can’t tell you how many clients I had that would’ve ended up homeless without assistance.
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@HenryForLA Seems like an obvious program to be cut given that LA is broke
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Because the money is for the StayHousedLA program, which provides struggling tenants with legal aid and rental assistance so they don't end up homeless. I was an Eviction Defense Attorney through that program; the people who do that work and stick with it deserve our support.
Rick J. Caruso@RickCarusoLA
Why did the LA City Council give $177 million of our tax dollars to people who want to defund the police and keep the homeless on our streets?
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The climate crisis is here and it's only going to get worse until we significantly reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. The best way LA could do that is by legalizing dense, multi-family housing across LA, particularly near transit, so that people can get around without a car.
Edgar McGregor@edgarrmcgregor
We did it. First ever in astronomical winter. Los Angeles inland suburbs.
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@ReadThinkTweet2 The median age of first-time homebuyers in America in 2025 was 40. In 1991, it was 28. It’s not the 1990’s anymore.
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@HenryForLA College grads were making 18-50k (range for lower and high pay positions) . It meant you made it when you broke into 6 figures. You wouldn’t buy a 400k house in your early 20s then either.
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The amount of economic insecurity and struggle that this housing crisis is causing is astounding and LA's politicians absolutely refuse to do anything about it. They care more about catering to the interests of wealth conservatives than the needs of working people.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
67% of Gen Z is struggling to pay rent or mortgages, compared with 53–54% of millennials and Gen Xers, and 36% of baby boomers, per Redfin.
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@Pd1000Patricia Which is why my platform is focused on making it legal to build housing that regular people can afford in the 70% of the city where it's been prohibited since segregation.
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@HenryForLA And the reason for this diminished ability to pay rent is that the govt over the years has increased its control of housing.
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