- Zach Sokoloff, Candidate for City Controller
A Win-Win on Homelessness: Compassionate Solutions and Budget Responsibility
We’ve spent billions to address our homelessness crisis with little to show for it. Housing the homeless is just the start. We need to address root causes like drug addiction and help put our unhoused neighbors on a true path to long-term recovery. If we keep throwing good money after bad, we won’t solve homelessness and we won’t be able to fund other critical city services.
Delivering a High Quality of Life
City services are crumbling. We must better manage our budget so that we can adequately fund infrastructure like our streets and sidewalks. Because if we can’t get the basics right, we won’t be trusted to get the big things right either.
Making LA More Affordable
Too many Angelenos are being priced out of the city they call home. I’ll audit vendors the City uses to build affordable housing, scrutinize ballot measures like Prop HHH, Measure A, and ULA to ensure taxpayer dollars are delivering results, and examine the regulations and red tape that make it harder and more expensive to build in LA.
Promoting Economic Prosperity
We have a billion-dollar budget deficit, but it would be impossible and imprudent to close that gap through cost-cutting alone. I will appoint a Chief Revenue Officer to work constructively across City Hall to support our anchor industries and keep good-paying jobs in LA.


