Ending Mistreatment of the Unhoused in Los Angeles (with Hugo Soto-Martinez & Eunisses Hernandez)

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Has your local city recently taken aggressive actions against the poor and unhoused? Seemingly all across the country, and almost unprecedented crackdown against those without homes has hit the most vulnerable in our cities incredibly hard. Cities are forcibly removing scores of folks who already have nowhere to go, and telling them to get lost.

During the pandemic, at least 1,500 unhoused LA residents died on the street, according to research from the University of California Los Angeles. This number is shockingly high, but it’s very likely to be a massive undercount as the data did not include unhoused people who were receiving medical care or hospitalized when they died, or people who died while in shelters or cars.

The L.A. City Council has a role to play in preventing these deaths. Their policies that invest in carceral solutions rather than community solutions after literal decades of evidence that punitive policies do not work, directly lead to things like homelessness, precarity and yes, even death.

Hugo Soto Martinez and Eunisses Hernandez are two progressives running for L.A. City Council. Hugo Soto Martinez has spent the past fifteen years working for UNITE HERE Local 11, a union representing over 32,000 workers employed in hotels, restaurants, airports, sports arenas, and convention centers across southern California and Arizona. Follow him on Twitterand donate or get involved at

Eunisses Hernandez has lived in Highland Park her entire life, fighting to keep her family home on the front lines of gentrification. Professionally, Eunisses was a key member of the Drug Policy Alliance, and led the charge to shut down one of the most corrupt county jails in the country, diverting the money to community benefits. Most recently she cochaired Measure J, which successfully reallocated a billion dollars from carceral systems into programs that actually address the root causes of crime. Follow her on Twitterand donate or get involved at

The Bitchuation Room was also joined this week by comedian, producer, writer, and podcaster Gareth Reynolds. Gareth (Not Gary) is the co-host of the Dollop, an American history/comedy podcast with fellow comedian Dave Anthony.

Recorded December 13th, 2021

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