Raman to be removed as chair of LA City Council’s homelessness committee

L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman announced that she will lose her position as chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee, claiming the removal is a political attack. She made the statement during a campaign event for her bid to run for mayor against Karen Bass. The change reportedly follows plans by L.A. City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson to split the committee into two separate parts: one focused on housing and one on homelessness.