A new housing politics is taking shape on the left

Nithya Raman at a campaign event, May 2026. | Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Image Los Angeles offers one of the most vivid examples of our nation’s broken housing system: a quintessentially American expanse of traffic-clogged roads and single-family homes, coupled with the highest home-price-to-household-income ratio of any major city in the country. To moderate prices, LA urgently needs to build more homes by allowing more density in its neighborhoods — but much of the city’s…