The inability to equitably and affordably house all of our residents is the compounding moral crisis of our time. It has driven our homelessness crisis, deepened segregation, and pushed working families out of the city they built. 

The worst part? This crisis is almost entirely self-made. Thanks to land use policy that sharply limited where new housing can be built, and a bureaucracy that rewards indecision and delays, Los Angeles now has the fewest homes per adult of major US cities, and has the largest percentage of households who are rent burdened. 

We must build much more housing to reduce housing costs. This includes housing at all income levels, everything from deed-restricted affordable housing to market rate housing to social housing to homeless shelters. 

Our plan will triple annual housing construction, and allow Los Angeles to remain a city of opportunity that welcomes people looking to build their dreams here.

What we’ve done

• Increased housing in Council District 4 by over a thousand units

• Streamlined affordable housing projects

• Created a single portal to search for affordable housing citywide (launching soon!)

• Passed the Hollywood Community Plan Update and the passage of the Housing Element to create new housing capacity citywide

• Passed programmatic and expenditure plans for Measure ULA and LACAHSA that will invest more than $1 billion of city and county funds to support affordable housing production, unit preservation, and eviction defense services

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Nearly two thirds of Angelenos rent their homes. Nearly 60% of them are rent burdened, which means they pay more than 30% of their income toward housing, a larger percentage than any other major city in America.

Let’s underscore what that really means: every month, a larger percentage of Angelenos choose between paying the rent or paying for groceries, healthcare, school costs, childcare and other necessities than in any other city in America. And for 80% of the lowest-income Angelenos, more than half of everything they earn goes to rent before a single other bill gets paid.

That burden can tip into crisis with one bad month. From 2023 through 2025, the Housing Department received 245,599 eviction notices. Ninety-three percent were for non-payment of rent. The average amount owed: less than $4,000. This is a burden that falls hardest on the same people every time: renters with children, renters of color, renters with disabilities, renters in low-income communities, older renters.

What we’ve done

• Capped the rent after 40 years

• Passed the strongest renters’ protections in Los Angeles history

  • Expanded Just Cause protections to all rental units

  • Required landlords to file an intent to evict with the City within 3 days

  • Made it unlawful to evict tenants who owe less than one month fair market rent

  • Strengthened the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance

  • Improved code enforcement to ensure units are habitable and in good living condition

  • Passed Right to Counsel and increased tenants ability to access a lawyer when facing an eviction

• Passed stricter regulations for illegal home-sharing

• First council office to launch a dedicated team for tenant casework

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Every time we see one of our neighbors living and dying on the streets, we should be shocked. Instead, in Los Angeles it has become routine. The desensitization to homelessness is a moral failing and a stain on any leadership that would call itself progressive. Angelenos have voted three times in the last decade to tax themselves to respond to our city's most serious problem with housing, services, and care. But City Hall has not done nearly enough with this investment, allowing inhumane suffering to continue in one of the wealthiest cities in the world. 

Los Angeles is spending hundreds of millions on homelessness every year, but we have not applied the rigor or accountability that this money demands. 40% of people moved indoors through the Mayor's signature program have returned to the streets. By failing to use our dollars, staffing, and infrastructure as efficiently as possible, we are failing the people we promised to help and squandering the compassion of voters who believed something could change. We must earn back the trust of both. If Los Angeles is going to spend real resources on this crisis — and it should — the problem must be solved.

What we’ve done

• Led efforts in our district that produced some of the largest declines in unsheltered homelessness across the entire city, and brought hundreds of people indoors into safety.

• Created the Bureau of Homelessness Oversight to manage homelessness spending and hold the system accountable.

• Created performance data on city investments for the first time and used it to drive real results: city-funded shelter beds went from 80% to 94% occupied, and all new permanent supportive housing is now over 90% occupancy.

• Created the first homelessness team at City Hall to provide consistent case management and get unhoused residents indoors quickly.

• Created the city's first system to track whether homeless programs are actually working — and used it to push shelter occupancy from 80% to 94%.

• Won over $2.5 million in competitive state and congressional funds to house people living along the LA River.

• Worked with community partners to win more than $10 million in state funds to develop permanent housing and a treatment center for pregnant and new mothers.

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The problem

Los Angeles is losing Hollywood. Not because productions want to leave, but because we've made it too hard for them to stay. Cities around the world are funding dedicated agencies and offering aggressive incentives to take our film industry, and we have let them. This is a $30 billion industry for California that once supported nearly 150,000 jobs across the county. We've lost more than 40,000 of those jobs in recent years because we have treated it as an inconvenience rather than an asset.

The causes are structural. There is no real city film office — permitting is handled by a third-party nonprofit, and the mayor didn't appoint a dedicated film liaison until late 2025, years into the collapse. City permitting is slow and unpredictable, with no guaranteed timelines, departments that contradict each other, and fees that add up to thousands of dollars even on the smallest shoots. Neighborhood filming conditions have accumulated over decades and effectively made parts of the city off-limits to production. And recent improvements to California's tax incentives still can't match competitors who offer uncapped credits that cover above-the-line costs. We must do everything in our power to keep this industry here.

Our plan

• Staff an LA Film Office in the Mayor's Office, led by people with real industry experience, and make Los Angeles a reliable partner to productions of every size.

  • Proactively engage studios and production companies to encourage local production, not just process permits when they come in.

  • Coordinate with the County and other jurisdictions so productions that cross city, county, and state lines have someone tasked with resolving inter-jurisdictional issues before they derail a shoot.

• Guarantee faster, more predictable permitting with clear timelines. Institute real structural reforms within city permitting departments and FilmLA so that the bureaucracy is not standing in the way of keeping production in Los Angeles.

• Lower and eliminate fees for smaller productions so indie and mid-sized projects can afford to shoot here.

• Simplify neighborhood filming conditions that have accumulated over decades and made parts of the city effectively off-limits to production. 

  1. Require regular review of all filming restrictions, including Council-set special conditions and LAPD location notes, so that rules put in place after a one-time complaint don't permanently block filming on a street. Any restriction that can't be justified on current evidence should expire. 

• Be the loudest advocates for the most expansive possible film tax credits at the state and federal level, guaranteed multiple years into the future so that producers and studios can count on them.

  1. The current expansion of our state tax credits to $750 million is better than before, but California is still losing to jurisdictions that offer uncapped credits, cover above-the-line costs, and provide refundable and transferable credits. For every tax credit dollar allocated, California sees $24.40 in economic output, $8.60 in wages, and $1.07 returned in state and local tax revenue, according to LAEDC.

  2. Multi-year certainty matters as much as the dollar amount. Studios plan productions years in advance, and so do the investors building the soundstages that keep the industry rooted here.

Till recently, Los Angeles was thought of as a climate leader. We committed to 100% renewable energy years ahead of the state, and we announced a Green New Deal. We have lost that reputation because we have lacked the systems of accountability and the political will to actually carry out our ambitious and necessary goals. Angelenos are now paying the costs.

Building the public transit system Angelenos voted for and clearing the path for much more infill housing are two of the largest emissions-reducing levers the city has, and they are embedded in our transportation and housing platforms. This section focuses on the rest: cleaning the air that is making Angelenos sick, investing in the parks and shade that make our neighborhoods livable, developing resilience and preparing for the wildfires, heat, drought, and flooding disasters we know are coming. And perhaps most importantly, creating the implementation and accountability infrastructure that turns plans into outcomes.

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Angelenos are tired of sitting in traffic, feeling unsafe on their streets, and navigating broken sidewalks. We’ve voted for real change — Measure R (2008) and Measure M (2016) committed $120B to the expansion of rail and transit across the county, and Measure HLA (2024) mandated that street safety improvements happen when streets get repaved, not decades later. We’ve been waiting for City Hall to deliver on those promises with the urgency they deserve. Los Angeles moves too slowly, spends too inefficiently, plans too haphazardly, and acts too timidly to give people the transportation network they've already voted for. 

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The problem

Every week in Los Angeles, healthy animals are killed simply because there is nowhere for them to go. In 2024, over 1,200 dogs and 1,500 cats were euthanized in just the first nine months because city shelters were housing nearly twice the number of animals they were built for. City Hall responded by cutting the animal services budget, and the department operated without a permanent General Manager for nearly two years during the worst crisis in the system's recent history. There's little reason to think the numbers in 2025 will be less harrowing.

Our plan

1. Invest in and fix the city's spay-and-neuter voucher program by increasing funding, bringing participating vets back, and expanding mobile clinics into every neighborhood. We also need to scale up the Citywide Cat Program, which provides trap-neuter-return services for community cats. Spay-and-neuter programs are the only way to reduce shelter intake at scale, and the city has been moving in the wrong direction.

2. Fund the basics that make shelter life humane. That means enough staff, programs, and volunteers to give dogs regular walks and behavioral enrichment; proper care and medicine for sick and injured animals; and the supplies the department needs to meaningfully care for the animals in city shelters.

3. Ensure stable, experienced leadership at Animal Services with the authority and accountability to actually fix the department. We need real transparency about what's happening inside city shelters and sincere partnership with the volunteers and nonprofits who have been holding this system together. Staff and volunteers have been sounding the alarm for years; they deserve to be part of the solution.

4. Crack down on backyard breeders and animal cruelty by properly staffing the city’s enforcement teams, targeting the worst offenders with data, and holding the department accountable to measurable results aligned with best practices.

5. Bring real oversight and accountability to LA Animal Services. The City Controller has launched an independent performance audit of the department. We'll commit to acting on its findings and requiring regular public reporting so Angelenos can see whether conditions are actually improving.

6. Keep pets in their homes in the first place through pet retention programs, including a pet food pantry and accessible veterinary care, so that fewer animals end up in shelters. Most pets surrendered to our shelters come from families who love them but can't afford a vet bill or a bag of food. Helping them is a fraction of what it costs the city to house and feed an animal long-term.

Los Angeles is opening half as many new businesses as it did a decade ago, and new business formation is at a 20-year low. A key part of the problem is that our city is not a real partner to the people trying to build something in it. We've made it slow and expensive to open a business, with agencies that don't talk to each other and no obligation to move quickly. We've allowed our commercial corridors to decline, with empty storefronts, broken streetlights, and a sense that no one is tending to them. And we've left mom-and-pop businesses defenseless against a web of costs that big companies can absorb but mom-and-pops cannot.

Our plan changes that. We will make City Hall a partner instead of an obstacle by setting hard deadlines, simplifying permitting, and giving every small business a single point of contact to help them get off the ground. We will bring commercial corridors back to life by investing in the basics that make a street feel cared for, by filling empty storefronts, and by expanding nightlife and events that draw people back. And we will protect small businesses from being squeezed out by raising the tax exemption, fighting predatory ADA lawsuits, and passing protections against landlord harassment. Small businesses are what gives a neighborhood its character. And Angelenos deserve a city that acts like it knows that.

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