Housing, rent and homelessness will be at the forefront of voters' minds in Los Angeles’s District 13 as they choose between two candidates with radically different visions for housing.
Soto-Martinez says that during his time in organized labor and, he witnessed a litany of everyday struggles faced by average people, an experience which, he says, has underscored the dire necessity of radical change.with police harassment and the criminal justice system, as well as his father
’s disability, proved formative, as did his first encounter with collective organizing. In 2006, a union drive began at the hotel where he was a low-waged employee.“I was still in college at the time — I got involved as a student and as a worker. We won the union, and I started working for them shortly thereafter. IIn his capacity as an organizer, he says he has worked closely with
“the most vulnerable groups of people in the city — folks that make minimum wage and have no health insurance, that live in a one-bedroom apartment with multiple people…. They’ve been in the service of that community for my entire adult life.” As a member of the Democratic Socialists of America , Soto-Martinez does not dissimulate about his radical aims; he identifies organized collective struggle as a prerequisite for change.“The labor movement does amazing work, and we should be proud of that — but many times, it’m trying to bring the same energy, the same level of agitation that we work with when unionizing workplaces, and do that on a large scale.”, unusual for a city of its size.
’s more empowered council is, then, responsible for planning, land use and infrastructure decisions — meaning
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