Sheng Thao will become the first Hmong-American to lead a major U.S. city. Thao will be sworn in as mayor in January.
A slate of diverse candidates are coming into power after historic midterm victories. Among them is
, who will become the first Hmong-American to lead a major U.S. city when she's sworn in as mayor of Oakland, California.'s Deepa Fernades meets with her to hear more about her story and her progressive vision."Public safety is housing and affordable housing. When I say affordable housing, it's the housing where it is even for people who have no income as well. That's where it all starts, is the stability part.
"We know that when we keep, for example, our kids busy during the summer, paid internships can actually decrease the amount of face time that our young people have with officers. We should have paid internships year round. And so that's what I want to do here in the city of Oakland is truly implement this more comprehensive approach of putting community first and then making sure that we have community policing.""With my my parents, my mom, she doesn't know how to drive.
"I'll be working with different organizations, with the district attorney's office, ensuring that women have the resources. When I was in my domestic violence relationship, I literally thought I was the only one going through it in the whole world because I didn't know that there were resources out there for me to escape.""People who are unhoused, me being a unhoused person before, will have mental health issues.
"We have to make sure that we have a centralized location for our unhoused so that we can bring the wraparound services, the mental health, social services, substance abuse services, put our families at the forefront, make sure they get into permanent housing first, and make sure that when we do centralize our unhoused into one into one location, that they're in dignified living spaces.
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