Katy Young Yaroslavsky and Sam Yebri are the candidates for L.A. City Council in District 5.
in June, when Katy Young Yaroslavsky finished with 48.97% of the vote — just over a percentage point shy of the 50% plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff.
Yaroslavsky has deep family roots in local politics — her father-in-law is Zev Yaroslavsky, who represented District 5 on the City Council for nearly two decades, and her mother was an L.A.-area district director for Supervisor Sheila Kuehl when Kuehl was in the state Assembly. Yebri has taken in a little over $1.1 million in contributions, while Yaroslavsky has raised about $950,000. Both candidates have received some outside support from unions, but the bulk of outside money in the race has comeCouncil District 5 sprawls from the hills of Bel-Air all the way to Hancock Park. It’s roughly
Yaroslavsky has said she thinks 41.18 — which bans encampments in certain areas — should be used as a “backstop strategy,” paired with and following meaningful engagement and offers of services and housing. To do otherwise would just move people around, shifting the issue a few hundred feet away and “increasing people’s misery,” she said during a recent debate.
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