okay so uh... i'm talking now with uh... nithia romen who is a candidate for

la city council in uh... district four nithia thank you so much for joining

me thank you so much for having me i'm glad we have this opportunity to talk

i'd like to talk to you about um... your campaign about why the la city

council is uniquely uh... powerful and important position as far as

Los Angeles goes but mainly just what you've been doing uh... with regards to

the issues of the sort of

very intertwined crises of uh... the housing market and homelessness in

Los Angeles and i'd like to kick things off with a statistic that uh... he's

david port told me about when he was telling me about you and your campaign

the last time i visited l.a. that really stunned me and he said that

what in Los Angeles more homeless people die from exposure

than in new york city yes

yet we had a over a thousand people

die on the streets of Los Angeles last year three a day

and that is more people than die in the city of new york despite new york

actually having a larger homeless population than

in Los Angeles but

people more people die here because we have provided far fewer of the resources

that they need

to uh... you know survive

i mean that's shocking not just because new york has technically a larger

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