Street vending has suddenly become a flashpoint in the mayor's race — we unpack the actual scale and legal status of Los Angeles' vending economy. Plus, a new report claims a single 2014 ballot measure, Prop. 47, drove 7,000 Californians into homelessness and fueled an 8% jump in serious drug use — how did that happen? And L.A. Material's Tomo Chien explains a century-old quirk buried in the city charter that bars Los Angeles from selling almost anything — including its own asphalt — without a vote, and why that could finally change this November.

Show notes:

• How one man rebuilt his life, 100 miles at a time, the Imperfect Paradise episode for which Antonia won a national Edward R. Murrow award

• Crime after Proposition 47 and the Pandemic, the PPIC report about Prop. 47's impact

• On the Ballot This November: Can L.A. Sell Asphalt? by Tomo Chien