Mayor-elect Nithya Raman on Tuesday night at the Greek Theatre. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
NITHYA RAMAN, WHO WILL become Los Angeles’ 44th mayor when she is sworn in on Dec. 14, is a Harvard and MIT-educated urban planner who ran on the idea that the city’s many problems can be tackled with sustained focus and a reliance on data to guide solutions.
“That work starts now,” Raman said in a video posted to Instagram shortly after Mayor Karen Bass conceded Thursday morning. As she stood on a scrub-brushed hill with the downtown skyline and City Hall behind her in the distance, Raman pledged to “build housing that people can afford” and “a transit system that can get people where they need to go.”
Those are lofty goals, as are many of the other things Raman promised during her campaign, especially for a city facing budget shortfalls and struggling with basic services such as streetlight repair and road repaving. Here are a few things to watch for in the first weeks and months of her administration.
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