Hayes Davenport

In addition to his career, Davenport is a homelessness activist, helping and advocating for people experiencing homelessness. He is on the board of directors of the SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition, a Los Angeles–based non-profit organization he has been volunteering with since 2017,^[13][14][15] and worked full-time on Nithya Raman's successful 2020 campaign for Los Angeles City Council.^[16][17][18] Raman is one of the co-founders of SELAH and made the issue of homelessness central to her campaign.^[19][20][21] After volunteering on the campaign, Davenport started to formally work for Raman as a senior advisor with a special focus on homelessness and housing projects^[16] and, as a result, departed as a host of the LA Podcast in July 2021.^[11] He left Raman's staff in the fall of 2024, in part because he "feel[s] like it's a good time to start talking again about city stuff, which is harder to do as a city employee".^[16] Davenport has talked extensively about housing and homelessness in Los Angeles on his own LA Podcast as well as other podcasts, such as Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Pod,^[22] High and Mighty,^[23] and Know Your Enemy.^[24] After leaving his job in the city government, he started a blog about Los Angeles politics, Big City Heat,^[25] on October 28, 2024, and posted a few articles and a two-part podcast miniseries about the 2024 Los Angeles County elections the following days, advocating in particular an ultimately passed ballot measure that will double the county's existing quarter-cent sales tax to fund homelessness services.^[16][26][27]

• Hollywood Handbook Archived March 16, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
• Hayes Davenport at IMDb
• Hayes Davenport on Twitter