Spencer Pratt is torching Nithya Raman and Karen Bass over a $10 million homeless housing “boondoggle,” using a single project to show City Hall is blowing through billions of dollars with weak oversight and poor results.
“Nithya Raman and Karen Bass are running a grift with the Homeless Industrial Complex,” Pratt told The Post. “There are too many unanswered questions surrounding these housing projects, and their funding is unacceptably opaque.”
He blasted projects bankrolled with public cash during Wednesday night’s debate, framing them as part of a runaway spending machine with little accountability and even fewer answers about who’s actually in charge.
“These ideas cost us over $400 million to house about 3,000 people,” Pratt said during the debate. “That’s an absolute failure for both of them.”
When Raman brushed it off, saying she didn’t know what he was talking about, Pratt tightened the vise.
Pratt took tosocial mediathe next morning and zeroed in on a single target. TheOak Tree Innin Raman’s district. A battered roadside motel now being flipped into transitional housing through California’s Homekey program.
“As I promised in the debate, here’s the ludicrous $10M boondoggle in Nithya Raman’s district,” his post on X read. He attached records tied to the Oak Tree Inn to back it up.
Those documents show the site was assessed at roughly $4.6 million, yet the city moved forward with a purchase price of about $7.3 million, with no clear public explanation for the gap.
As I promised in the debate. Here’s the ludicrous $10M boondoggle in Nithya Raman’s districtpic.twitter.com/4xNts0kEGL
The city is now rehabbing the property, adding roughly another $10 million so far and pushing the total past $17 million. That brings the price to about $774,000 per unit, with each unit classified as a studio apartment.
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