Nithya Raman scorched over ultimate selfish act while running for LA mayor

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman has been accused of focusing on herself instead of fixing the city’s horrific homeless crisis.Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez tore into Raman in City Hall on Tuesday, claiming she has ignored long-standing problems while prioritizing her political future.Referring to calls to overhaul the region’s homelessness bureaucracy, Rodriguez noted there had been “no movement for more than two years” despite growing concerns about the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the region’s largest homelessness agency.“Sadly, there was no movement for more than two years on this issue.And we know exactly what the source of that problem was,” Rodriguez said.Rodriguez then appeared to take direct aim at Raman, who chairs the Housing and Homelessness Committee while running for mayor.“We need to stop allowing people to wait for a promotion before they actually do their job,” Rodriguez said.The comments came during debate over a resolution urging the White House and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to restore federal funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.Last week, HUD suspended LAHSA’s participation in federal programs while its inspector general investigates allegations of financial mismanagement, weak oversight and what federal officials described as “wanton mismanagement.” The agency receives nearly $200 million a year in federal funding.The move followed a blistering rebuke from the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which accused LAHSA of wasting taxpayer dollars after nearly $1 billion in federal money flowed to the agency since 2021.But the criticism of Los Angeles’ homelessness system did not stop there.As council members debated the funding crisis, another report moving through City Hall highlighted the city’s struggle to turn taxpayer-funded housing into units used by the homeless.The City Council voted to note and file a Project Homekey status report showing 1...