Housing, Equity, and the Future of L.A: Rae Huang For LA Mayor | Capítulo 265

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, Diosa and Mala interview Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate Rae Huang, a community organizer, coalition builder, and pastor. She details a platform centered around the needs of everyday Angelenos, like permanent affordable housing, a public bank, and free and fast transit. Rae Huang shares different ways she wants to innovate city hall and the mayor's office, like establishing the first Office of Nightlife, co-governance, and more.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.
0:04.8	Locator Radio.
0:10.2	Hey, Locamores, I'm Diosa, and you're listening to Locatora Radio.
0:15.7	We're back this week with another mayoral candidate interview.
0:20.1	Today, we're talking to Ray Huang, a community organizer, coalition builder, and pastor.
0:25.6	A few weeks ago, her team invited me to an indie press event hosted at Midnight Books in the Arts District.
0:33.6	This is where I got to hear her campaign platforms firsthand. At this event, I learned more about
0:39.9	Ray and her decades-long advocacy for affordable housing. Now, we're bringing her campaign policies to you.
0:48.2	In this interview, you'll hear her discuss social housing. Social housing is permanent affordable housing that is permanently off the
0:57.3	speculative market. Free buses. Let's get people out of their cars. We can change that by making
1:03.5	our lives easier, by making transit more accessible, by making transit faster and if we make it
1:09.2	free. And a public bank. A public bank is a bank that we get to run.
1:13.6	It's our cities.
1:14.6	That means the fees and all of those transactions are not going into the pockets of Wall Street.
1:20.6	What strikes me so far about this campaign is that Ray shared that community members,
1:25.6	everyday Angelinos like you and me me contributed to her policy points.
1:32.3	As we approach the June 2nd primary, there is a stacked race.
1:37.3	Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass is running for re-election.
1:41.3	Councilmember Nithia Rahman is also running. You can tune into that interview on our feed if you
1:46.7	haven't already. Reality TV star Spencer Pratt. Yes, Spencer from the Hills is also running. And Adam Miller,
1:57.3	a tech entrepreneur. We know that not all of our listeners are LA-based, but we still think
2:04.3	this mayoral race is so important because as large as a city as Los Angeles is, we know that it is
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