Otra de las candidatas a la alcaldía de los ángeles es ray wang, una organizadora comunitaria y también pastora presbiteriana. Démosle la bienvenida.

Bienvenida a nuestro estudio. Comencemos con la primera pregunta.

Al parecer su plataforma empieza con seguridad para todos, pero todo esto cae vivienda. Por qué vivienda?

Primero es. Public safety means that we need to have stable housing it means that we children can feel safe at home can play can study can learn and a place where we can actually provide a place for us to sleep and make food and health and cuál es su plan específico para que los angelinos tengan una vivienda que pueden pagar?

One of the most important thing that our families are right now. Which is the ability of rent and be able to buy a home and that's what i plan on expanding housing which is everywhere in the world public or community housing that is resident managed and it means that these are off the speculative market, but they're owned forever by us.

And what that does is it ends up stabilizing the rental market stabilize real state for us to be able to actually afford housing and we've seen this for example in public housing right now in really need just yesterday. I met a resident who's lived in which is a public housing unit has lived here for six years.

This is the kind of stability that our families need rent does not go up because we rent is based on income. Cómo vamos a poder pagar por eso si estamos en una entidad capitalista?

Power and benefit housing housing has a lot of different options there's lots of different models so either which again we have public housing already and we want to expand and support public housing that we have right now we really need is actually under threat and their hundreds of residents who are going to be possibly if we don't protect them, but also to expand into social housing and social housing options can be a single family unit it can be a single family home it could be apartment buildings townhomes they can be owned community land or be a cooperative tenants who choose the buy together, the property and be able to own together the property. Viviendo sin hogar en los ángeles.

Cómo puede escalar esto rápido? And millions of dollars in inside safe program paying for private hotels and to provide safety and homes for our unused, but the problem is it's only a temporary shelter and it's very very expensive and when you talk to people inside inside safe.

They actually have been moved to or three times. So they're not actually being stabilized with research.

Has shown is that we need to keep people who have been previously enough for stable for at least years for them to get into their feet and begin to get their lives together to live in a stabilized situation and so we need to move those funds that were pouring again. Hundreds of millions of dollars that are being wasted and put it into long term permanent solutions of housing.

That's what our community needs. Policía de los ángeles una pandilla legal.

Qué significa eso? So for.

Los angeles. We have seen a history of racism .

Clasismo. Sexismo of have a lot of different arms that the police.

Has incurred onto our communities. We've seen racial profiling.

We've seen attacks and focus on our undocumented workers and undocumented families here l. A.

P. D who have stopped our families while they're driving their cars.

It's time that we have a true program and department that focuses on really protecting and serving our communities in example something that we've already done here a successful program is the unarmed crisis response that we have here in los angeles. What that means is together with the mental health support the social worker nurse the emt team of people who come and are able to help people in their crisis.

So that when you call nine one one and you say i'm in crisis you're able to respond to the crisis with exactly what that person needs. Usted le quitaría fondos a la policía de los ángeles.

City is going to the right now. Meanwhile, we are defunding departments such like the department of aging.

Department of youth the economic workplace development department focused on supporting small businesses putting funding into the lapd which comes after crime occurs what we need to do if we want to stop crime is to be able to support people that crime doesn't occur if people are struggling economically instead of stealing if we provide them with a good job and with support. They don't need to steal if you have a home, then you won't be in survival mode and struggling mental health on the streets and maybe causing harm possibly of course to yourself if you're ready or to other people if you're in a really difficult circumstance.

This is where we need to be putting our focus on the resources to prevent crime from beginning first and when crisis occurs people can be met with a crisis response unit that can actually serve the challenges that people are facing in their moment. Problemas económicos.

La gente no tiene trabajos y los negocios están cerrando. Cómo?

Cómo va a mejorar eso? So we need to fix it is we do need to be increasing our wages recently.

You might have heard that city council to delay the wages which would raise the minimum wage for 30 dollars an hour for our hospitality workers who are supposed to be benefiting during the olympics. We need to be focused on increasing wages and ensuring a safe workplace for all workers.

The second is we need to be supporting our small businesses and our vendors. These are the lifeline of our communities.

They are the heart of who we are as losángeles, but they are struggling in this moment one of the things. I plan on doing is bringing a public bank to our city a public bank would be able to provide funds public funds to be able to invest and provide loans for small businesses without the profit interest so instead of our dollars going to wall street.

We can make sure that the money is staying in the city of los angeles and supporting the people and communities and businesses of our losangeles. La comunidad.

Usted me dice que creció gracias a la comunidad que abrazó a sus padres inmigrantes cuando llegaron a los estados unidos. Qué trajo eso a su personalidad y al carácter que quiere traer a los angeles?

Yeah. So i was my parents.

Are they immigration from taiwan with suitcases and a baby my older brother and they had nothing and they spoke a different language. And they really struggled when they arrived here, but they found community in a church.

They found community specifically in the immigrant church where they spoke the same language at the same food and where supported by people who even though weren't blood relatives understood their experience of being in immigrant and we connected and care for each other when somebody was sick someone brought up when my parents needed help watching us a little babies. We had unties and uncles not real unsung uncles, but unties and uncles from the church who came in took care of us.

We care for each other like a small village. Like a community like a family, and that is exactly how i feel about my values and about what i want to actually bring here to los angeles is this feeling of community.

The feeling of protecting the feeling of safety that comes when we truly take care of one another and see each