LA Mayoral Debate with Adam Miller, Nithya Raman, and Rae Huang - March 2026

On Monday, March 23, 2026 we co-hosted a debate with the Housing Action Coalition for leading candidates running for Mayor: Nithya Raman, Rae Huang, and Adam Miller. Mayor Bass declined to attend and Spencer Pratt never responded. Topics included housing, homelessness, infrastructure, transportation and Metro. Moderated by Michael Schneider (Founder, CEO Streets For All) and Jesse Zwick (Southern California Director of the Housing Action Coalition) 4:43 - Opening Statements 11:46 - Mayor Bass not attending 14:50 - Missing LA's RHNA goals / jumpstarting housing production 19:04 - Vision for how Angelenos get around, how the city looks and feels 23:27 - Measure ULA 28:38 - Funding basic services, fixing potholes, streetlights 33:00 - Inside Safe, is it working, what would you change 37:19 - Measure HLA 40:39 - Do we need more market rate housing in addition to affordable housing 45:15 - Metro 49:10 - SB-79 53:24 - The cost of repairing our streets going up, being penny wise and pound foolish 57:25 - The high cost of home ownership 1:01:53 - Congestion pricing 1:05:45 - Bringing down the cost of construction, single stair case 1:09:23 - LAX building a massive new roadway in front of the airport 1:14:12 - The low cost of blocking housing 1:17:58 - Vision Zero 1:22:10 - Executive Directive 1 - Affordable Housing 1:26:29 - City not delivering grant funded projects well 1:29:40 - LADWP delaying new housing coming online 1:33:20 - Closing Statements