{"id":310331,"date":"2026-05-11T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:13:11","slug":"la500-2026-rex-richardson-los-angeles-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310331\/","title":{"rendered":"LA500 2026: Rex Richardson &#8211; Los Angeles Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Rex Richardson\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778508791_714_w=9999.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778508791_714_w=9999.jpeg\" alt=\"Rex Richardson\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mayor<br \/>City of Long Beach<\/p>\n<p>As the 29th mayor of California\u2019s seventh-largest city, Rex Richardson focused on leading Elevate 28 \u2013 the largest infrastructure investment program in Long Beach\u2019s history \u2013 positioning the city for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Under his leadership, his administration has created over 4,100 new jobs, achieved the city\u2019s first decline in homelessness in a decade, and recorded its lowest crime rates in 20 years. He chairs the L.A. County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency and serves on the U.S. Conference of Mayors Advisory Board. Before becoming Long Beach\u2019s first Black mayor and its second youngest, Richardson served on the City Council for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>YEARS ON LA500: 2 Years on the LA500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MayorCity of Long Beach As the 29th mayor of California\u2019s seventh-largest city, Rex Richardson focused on leading Elevate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[98979,131,133,132,15766],"class_list":["post-310331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-city-of-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-rex-richardson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}