The Housing Department's Policy & Planning Unit provides the analytic basis for the City's housing policy and program development.

POLICY & PLANNING STAFF
1200 W. 7th Street, 9th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Main Line: (213) 808-8809
Fax: (213) 808-8999

• Yolanda Chavez, Director     ychavez@lahd.lacity.org           (213) 808-8405
• Franklin Campos                   fcampos@lahd.lacity.org         (213) 808-8651
• Pauline Hollis                         phollis@lahd.lacity.org             (213) 808-8649
• Claudia Monterrosa              cmonterrosa@lahd.lacity.org   (213) 808-8650
• Marisol Romero                     mromero@lahd.lacity.org         (213) 808-8647
• Rebecca Ronquillo               rronquillo@lahd.lacity.org         (213) 808-8648
• Nancy Twum-Akwaboah      ntwum-akwaboah@lahd.lacity.org    (213) 808-8646

AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN LOS ANGELES

• The City of Los Angeles currently has 63,562 affordbale housing units across the city in 1,826 developments, serving very low income; low income and moderate income households.  The vast majority of these affordable units have been financed with public funds.  The requirements of the public funding include maintaining the affordability for a specific number of years.
• LAHD is currently updating a series of maps and tables detailing all of the City's affordable housing resources.
• Contact: Call Policy's main phone number at (213) 808-8809 for assistance.

 AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION PROGRAM

• In Fall 2002, in response to the City of Los Angeles' growing risk of permanently losing affordable multifamily rental housing units to market rate, the Mayor and City Council instructed LAHD to develop a comprehensive program to manage the City's affordable housing inventory, including ways to prevent, or mitigate, the loss of affordable units. In Fall 2004, the City of Los Angeles approved the Affordable Housing Preservation Program. The Preservation Program includes recommendations for a notice ordinance, finance guidelines for preservation transactions, outreach and education, and the creation of a Preservation Coordinator position to implement and manage the Preservation Program.
• The Preservation Program is now being implemented and program components--which will be posted to the web--are being developed. Staff has prepared a report detailing the Preservation Program.
• Contact: Franklin Campos, Preservation Coordinator

ARCHIVE

• Past studies/reports are still available in the archive.    More...

DOWNTOWN REBOUND PLANNING GRANT

• Various planning studies funded by the State of California were completed under the Downtown Rebound Planning Grant.    More...

INCLUSIONARY HOUSING (also known as "Inclusionary Zoning")

• LAHD contracted with David Paul Rosen and Associates to complete an inclusionary housing study. For the latest news on the proposed inclusionary zoning ordinance, opportunities for public comment and informational resources, please see the Inclusionary Zoning page.
• Contact: Call Policy's main phone number at (213) 808-8809 for assistance.

HOUSING CRISIS TASK FORCE

• In Short Supply: Recommendations of the Los Angeles Housing Crisis Task Force (.pdf - 6.4MB)
  As this is a rather large file, it is suggested that you right-click on the link above and choose "Save Target As" to save the file to your computer. 
• A Housing Crisis Task Force comprised of business and community representatives and staff of City agencies was convened by the Los Angeles City Council to consider the profound crisis of housing affordability in the City. 

KINSHIP CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL

• The Council was formed by former Mayor Richard Riordan and has been meeting since October 2000. This body convenes to discuss policy direction and explore areas of possible collaboration that will best serve the needs of relative caregivers throughout the City and County of Los Angeles. The Council includes City and County agencies and members of the public (who are themselves relative caregivers). The Council is currently on hiatus after publication of a Kinship Resource Directory.

MAP ROOM

• Maps are created and data analyzed using ArcView Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Visit our Map Room

VACANCY DATA

• Residential Vacancy Data is received monthly from the Department of Water and Power and uploaded to the web.  Contact: Franklin Campos