Reverend Rae Huang has spent her life building power for those too often left out of the decisions that shape Los Angeles.
In a moment when the foundations of democracy feel fragile and as communities across Los Angeles face renewed threats, Rae believes the best way to defend democracy is to prove that it can work for everyone. We can’t afford more gridlock on the road to progress. It’s time to get moving.
Meet Rae
A seasoned community organizer and ordained Presbyterian minister, Reverend Rae Huang has spent two decades bringing people together across faiths, neighborhoods, and movements to fight for dignity, fairness, and a city where everyone has a place to call home. As Deputy Director at Housing NOW! California, Rae directed statewide campaigns to make housing affordable and end the displacement of working-class communities of color. She led efforts behind major legislative and budget wins, like expanding tenant protections under SB 567, and supporting the passage and implementation of California’s groundbreaking social housing study bill, SB 555. She has been an organizer with Clergy for Black Lives and the People’s Budget LA, fought for economic justice alongside hotel and service workers at Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), and initiated the launch of the Healthy LA Coalition, which won critical pandemic relief for families who otherwise would have been left behind. Rae also played a critical role in organizing fire recovery efforts in Los Angeles. As mayor, Rae will strengthen and expand community-driven solutions to make our city more affordable, sustainable, and safe for every neighbor.
Your Voice, Our Future, Together LA
Rae is gathering people to envision a new Los Angeles and make it reality.
Our current government isn't meeting the needs of everyday Angelenos. We can’t keep patching up the systems that created our problems just to watch them break down again. We must fundamentally reimagine how the City serves its people. This starts with leadership that earns our trust in both its commitment to governing with our interests at heart and its actions to back up that claim.
Rae believes Los Angeles can be a model for a city run by its people for its people. This looks like supporting community-driven solutions and creating infrastructure to support better democracy through co-governance and resident participation. She sees a future of interconnected neighborhoods that flourish cooperatively rather than just exist next to each other, a future where City resources strengthen community ties and opportunity is within reach for every Angeleno.
Our shared vision for LA is built on these foundations:
Housing for All
Homes are for people, not profit. Housing is a basic need, and Los Angeles must treat it that way. Our City must build and preserve housing at the scale our communities require, protect tenants from displacement and homelessness, and ensure that public investment creates permanently affordable homes.
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Clean and Green Infrastructure
Our City should be functional and easy to navigate, with long-term planning and public projects that foster interdependence and climate resiliency. The City must be disaster prepared and become stronger as we rebuild from recent devastations. We must invest in our City and our communities rather than letting tax dollars leak away to big banks.
An Economy for the People
Our economy must serve the working people over the ultrawealthy, with fair wages and good jobs, thriving local businesses, and opportunities that encourage entrepreneurs to start and scale their ideas here with us. Los Angeles shapes global culture like no other city on earth, and our success rests on the industries, spaces, and workers that make it so. We are famous for our imagination, and we are always evolving. The future doesn’t just happen to LA. It comes here to introduce itself. Our job as a city is to welcome it.
Real Safety
Safety starts with care, belonging, and people having their basic needs met. That is how we prevent accidents and crime from happening in the first place. When harm does occur, we respond with proven interventions that prioritize repair and healing over punitive, carceral, or militarized reactions. We must further extend our understanding of safety to the wildlife and animal companions with which we share our City.
Transparency & Accountability
Effective democracy requires a government that communicates clearly, spends honestly, and makes room for everyone to participate.
Your Voice, Our Future, Together LA.
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This platform was not developed in a campaign office. It was built by Angelenos, many of whom are deeply rooted in the communities, coalitions, and movements that have long shaped this city. Rae has worked alongside these groups for years, and their research, advocacy, and vision are woven into everything we stand for. We believe that government is an extension of the will and leadership of the people, and that the people of Los Angeles already know what this city needs. Our job is to listen, to learn, and to fight for it.
This work did not begin with this campaign, and it will not end with it either. It belongs to the organizers, advocates, and neighbors who have been showing up for Los Angeles long before any of us ran for office, and who will continue to do so long after.