An educator and two nonprofit executives are challenging Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell for her position on the powerful Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, representing the 2nd District, a seat held by Black leaders for the past three decades. The supervisorial seats are nonpartisan. If no one wins more than 50% of votes on March 5, the top two candidates will compete in a November runoff. The Times surveyed each candidate and their answers are below, summarized or edited for length.
County a 'housing first county' and directing county lobbyists to fight any legislation in Sacramento that wasn't housing first. Bradford said she'd also push county lobbyists to fight to amend Senate Bill 1380, a law Mitchell authored in 2016, another housing first effort. The law 'offers services as needed and requested on a voluntary basis and doesn’t not make participation in services mandatory in order to receive housing.