What's Next, Los Angeles? with Mike Bonin

When Nury Martinez resigned from the City Council in October, it left 270,000 residents of the east San Fernando Valley without representation.  The special election to fill the seat is April 4, and …

 When Nury Martinez resigned from the City Council in October, it left 270,000 residents of the east San Fernando Valley without representation.  The special election to fill the seat is April 4, and…

Mayor Karen Bass has made homelessness her top priority. She has declared a state of emergency, secured federal funds, and started moving people from encampments into motels. Asd she he has named a n…

The election is finally over, and the vote count continues for a couple very key races. But we know a lot about most races. What are the most important things we see in the election results? Alissa W…

You haven’t voted yet???

Time is running out. If you need help figuring out how to vote on this very crowded ballot, we've got you covered on this weeks's edition of What's Next, Los Angeles.

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Who should you vote for for Los Angeles County Supervisor? That's an easy one. If you care about ending homelessness or combating climate change, if you care about transportation and public safety, a…

Do you know where your city tax dollars go? You might be surprised to find out. City Controller candidate Kenneth Mejia has been pulling back the curtain of city government and he’s here to join me t…

Who has the power to end homelessness in Los Angeles? You do – by voting for Measure ULA on the November ballot. We discuss 5 Ways ULA Will Help End Homelessness” on this week’s edition of What’s Nex…

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is LA’s top cop. He runs the largest county sheriff’s office in the United States and manages one of the world’s largest jail systems. With an annual budget…

As we emerge from the COVID pandemic, renters could be at risk of eviction and of big rent hikes. What can we do to stop that?  In this episode, we discuss 7 Things Los Angeles Can Do To Protect Rent…

As homelessness continues to increase nationally and locally, we need fast, urgent, and cost-effective solutions. Shared housing is a model where homeless people live together as a group, often in a …

Can a federal court make LA solve homelessness? That's the key question in LA Alliance for Human Rights vs. the City of Los Angeles and County of Los Angeles, a provocative federal lawsuit overseen b…

Can a federal court make LA solve homelessness? That's the key question in LA Alliance for Human Rights vs. the City of Los Angeles and County of Los Angeles, a provocative federal lawsuit overseen b…

What do transit riders think of LA Metro? And what do they think the regional transit agency thinks of THEM? Councilmember Mike Bonin, a member of the Metro board, talks about the bus system, service…

The COVID pandemic has given birth to a brutal recession. A new report from the Economic Roundtable predicts job loss from this recession will cause homelessness in Los Angeles to skyrocket. How bad …

Riding a wave of public support for criminal justice reform,  George Gascón won election as Los Angeles County District Attorney last fall. When he took office in December, he announced  a package of…

With hundreds of thousands of households in Los Angeles at risk of eviction, local housing justice advocates are pushing a big proposal to cancel rent and mortgages -- relieving renters, homeowners a…

Los Angeles is the largest urban oilfield in the country, and oil drilling happens near homes, schools, parks and hospitals. It mostly happens in low-income, African-American and Latinx communities, …

In this episode of "What's Next, Angeles?" Mike Bonin talks about reimagining public safety with Ben Adam Climer of CAHOOTS, the successful mobile crisis intervention teams that handle non-violent em…

Tens of thousands of people are living -- and many of them are dying -- on our streets. Homelessness is an epic humanitarian crisis, and we are not going to solve it unless we hear from people who ar…