Rae Huang

Criminal Justice / Public Safety As mayor, Rae will conduct the first-ever audit of contractor compliance with current data protection policies to ensure private vendors are not facilitating a 'backdoor' for federal agencies to bypass City law. Without a rigorous, independent review of these digital contracts, Los Angeles risks inadvertently subsidizing the very surveillance infrastructure that compromises the constitutional rights of its residents. Environment / Energy And she will prepare our City for what is coming. That means planting trees to cool down neighborhoods that bake in the summer heat, creating a network of community centers that can serve as emergency hubs when disaster strikes, and making it easier for renters and homeowners to access solar power. It means updating our city communications system and hiring a City meteorologist so we can prepare for the next fire weather event coming before it is already too late. Economy The City will work with property owners, community organizations, and responsible developers to identify and prioritize these sites for mixed-use development. Projects will include meaningful community engagement to identify tangible community benefits for the projects to include. By rethinking how we use commercial space, Los Angeles can expand housing, strengthen neighborhoods, and support vibrant local economies. Wages / Job Benefits LA workers need not only a living wage, but enough paid time off to proactively care for themselves and their family and friends. That is why we’re proposing every worker in Los Angeles gets at least 12 days of paid time off every year. This policy is inline with what the city of West Hollywood already provides. Wages / Job Benefits Rae will work with City Council to increase the minimum wage to 30/hr by 2028 for businesses over 50 employees. Los Angeles has already passed a 30/hour minimum wage for hospitality workers. This would bring additional workers of larger businesses in line with them. Criminal Justice / Public Safety When disaster strikes, professional responders will be overwhelmed, leaving neighbors as the true first line of defense for one another. As Mayor, Rae will move beyond the current landscape of timid, opt-in programs and commit to a massive, City-funded mobilization that transforms fragmented volunteerism into organized networks of trained and ready Angelenos. Housing A downpayment for a home in Los Angeles can range anywhere from 3% to 20% of the purchase price. However, families who are able to scrape together a modest downpayment are competing with people offering six figure downpayments. The City currently offers loans to assist low-income and first-time homebuyers, but this doesn’t fully bridge the gap. Rae will create a Homebuyer Initiated Program (HIP-LA), to help Angelenos expand their purchasing power through partnering with a community land trust (CLT). In this arrangement, the CLT would own the land and the homebuyer would own the building. HIP-LA will help make homeownership dreams a reality. Economy Right now, the City borrows hundreds of millions of dollars every year from big banks and pays them back with your tax dollars in fees and interest. Rae will fight to create a public bank so that money stays here and gets reinvested in our communities instead. Housing Rae will address exclusionary barriers that prevent our City from building enough housing. A thriving city needs more density: we cannot house everyone without it. Increasing supply, especially near transit, moves us toward a more sustainable, inclusive, and affordable Los Angeles. We must especially increase supply for those at the lowest income levels. Housing Support a vacancy tax to disincentivize property owners from holding potential housing and commercial spaces empty. Taxes / Budget As mayor, she will move Los Angeles to a two-year budget cycle, freeing up time and resources for genuine planning, and requiring that meaningful public engagement happen before the Mayor's proposal is drafted, not after. Angelenos will have a real opportunity to shape priorities rather than react to decisions already made. Infrastructure / Transportation She will make buses free and make them run on time, add more bus lanes and bike lanes, and make sure our streets are actually safe to walk. She will appoint transit riders to the Metro Board so the people making decisions about our trains and buses are the same people who depend on them. Criminal Justice / Public Safety Rae will expand the proven Unarmed Model of Crisis Response (UMCR) across all 21 LAPD Areas, ensuring that every neighborhood has 24/7 access to specialized clinicians who successfully resolve 96% of calls without police involvement. Infrastructure / Transportation To move Los Angeles forward, as Mayor, Rae will work with local and regional transportation and public works agencies to reduce car-use by implementing programs to improve the safety and accessibility of transit systems and active transportation infrastructure. Economy Rae will align with the Fair Games Coalition's demand for a New Deal for Angelenos. The games must generate lasting benefits for the communities that make them possible. That includes defending the Olympic wage floor, keeping ICE out of venues and away from workers, and demanding that LA28 govern independently of federal political influence. It entails backing the Overpaid CEO Tax initiative, which would generate over half a billion dollars annually to fund housing, sidewalk repairs, after-school programs, and grocery access in the neighborhoods most in need ahead of 2028. Immigration It is time for the City to live up to its claim. As mayor, Rae will end LAPD's collaboration with federal immigration enforcement. That means appointing Police Commission members who will prohibit officers from honoring administrative ICE warrants, close the SB 54 loophole that allows jail staff to tip off ICE about release dates, and, if necessary, withdraw LAPD from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, as Portland did in 2019.