# Socialist LA mayor’s bold homelessness promise ahead of 2028 Olympics hit with reality check: ‘Not optimistic’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/socialist-la-mayors-bold-homelessness-promise-ahead-of-2028-olympics-hit-with-reality-check-not-optimistic/
- Published: 2026-11-14T10:30:51+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-14T11:22:09+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialist-la-mayor-bold-homelessness-promise-ahead-2028-olympics-hit-reality-check-not-optimistic
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Raman promises to halve tent and encampment homelessness before the 2028 Olympics.
- Her plan includes more housing, rental help and outreach medical teams.
- A local activist questions whether it can deliver lasting results.

## Summary

Incoming Los Angeles Mayor Nithya Raman has pledged to reduce by at least half the number of people living in tents and encampments before the 2028 Olympics. The promise makes homelessness a major test of her leadership as the city prepares to host the Games for the first time since 1984.

Raman proposes expanding housing, shelters and rental assistance, sending medical teams into encampments to connect people with treatment and longer-term care within 90 days, and reviewing delayed housing projects and homelessness spending. Local business owner and activist John Alle doubts the plan will produce lasting change, arguing that people could be moved elsewhere during the Olympics and return afterwards. The 2026 annual count found homelessness rose 3.4% in Los Angeles and 1.2% across the wider area, reversing two years of declines.

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