Why would she spend the $4m? She hasn't figured out how to steal it for herself yet. Archive: https://archive.today/GSdyr From the post: >>A Democratic candidate for Los Angeles mayor has made tackling homelessness a pillar of her campaign, but she has yet to spend millions of dollars allocated to address the problem while in her role as a city councilmember. Nithya Raman is head of the LA City Council's Housing and Homelessness Committee, which received a $4 million grant from the state to clean up a sprawling encampment by the LA River, according to records reviewed by the California Post. She is one of three frontrunners in a tight mayoral race. A recent UC Berkeley-LA Times poll has incumbent Karen Bass at 26 percent, Raman at 25 percent and Republican first-time candidate Spencer Pratt at 22 percent among likely voters.