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AHLA's Year End Celebration!

Dec 12 Thu 6:30 pm - Dec 12 Thu 8:30 pm

Angel City Brewery216 Alameda StLos Angeles, CA90012 Map

With Guest Speaker Meghan Sahli-Wells, RHNA Champion!

AHLA has a lot to celebrate this year! Help us end our first year as a funded organization by celebrating our accomplishments and giving thanks to our hard-working volunteers. Thanks to AHLA members and volunteers, we were able to support individual housing projects, advocate for better community plans, support pro-housing and tenant protection on the state level, and successfully advocate for over 1.3 million homes in the SCAG region, concentrated in coastal, job-rich cities near transit! Our Guest Speaker, Culver City Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells told SCAG that they were the "titanic," heading to disaster on housing. Thanks to her, our amazing volunteers, and other pro-housing advocates and elected officials, SCAG voted for a better plan.

Let's get together over beer and take the moment to recognize our successes, and the bigger wins down the road as we enter 2020. Drinks and food will be provided!

Purchase tickets here - only a limited number available! secure.everyaction.com/CkN4a_0KSE6a0YV7pUhIRw2

AHLA Supporting Members can purchase discounted tickets. If you're not already a member, please join us! secure.everyaction.com/f4RuV-vBk066Bl5rK721iw2... See MoreSee Less

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Housing 101 - Introduction to Abundant Housing

Dec 14 Sat 12:00 pm - Dec 14 Sat 2:00 pm

18th Floor, 515 Flower St, Los Angeles, CA 90071 Map

Want to learn more about the history of housing in Los Angeles, the facts about the housing crisis, and what we do at AHLA?

Join us for Housing 101 - Introduction to Abundant Housing LA. Great for new members who are interested in learning more, experienced members who want to deepen their understanding of housing issues, and those who are just interested in seeing what we're all about.

Luke Klipp, our Education Director with urban and transit policy experience, will lead a presentation and discussion.... See MoreSee Less

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Past Events

SB 50 Debate - AHLA's December Panel Series

Dec 04 Wed 6:30 pm - Dec 04 Wed 8:30 pm

Santa Monica Place395 Santa Monica PlaceSanta Monica, CA90401 Map

Hear both sides on SB 50! Is it what California needs, or is it the wrong direction?

Join us for this dynamic debate on a housing bill which, if passed, will bring significant changes to zoning and housing development across California.

Featuring Charles Loveman (representing the opposition side), Executive Director of Heritage Housing Partners (HHP), a non-profit affordable housing developer based in Pasadena, CA. He is the former Board Chair of The Waverly School in Pasadena, CA, is the former President of the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative (LANI), is the former Board President of the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation, is a former member of the West Hollywood Planning Commission, is the former Chair of the West Hollywood Cultural Heritage Commission, and is a former Board Member of the California Preservation Foundation.

Randy Shaw, representing the supporting side for SB 50, is an attorney, author and activist who lives in Berkeley, California. He is the executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, a non-profit organization in San Francisco that he co-founded in 1980. Shaw also co-founded and is on the Board of Directors of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc., a nonprofit organization that spearheaded the creation of the national Uptown Tenderloin Historic District in 2009. Shaw is also the editor of Beyond Chron, and has written six books on activism, including "Generation Priced Out."

**The debate will take place in the 3rd Floor Community Room at Santa Monica Place. The Community Room is near the 3rd floor bathrooms**

Santa Monica Place is adjacent to the Downtown Santa Monica Expo Line stop.... See MoreSee Less

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Advocacy and Public Comment Training w/ Everyone In

Nov 26 Tue 6:30 pm - Nov 26 Tue 8:00 pm

Sepulveda Peace Center3916 SepulvedaCulver City, CA90230 Map

If you want to become a more effective advocate for housing, this event is for you!

Abundant Housing LA is proud to be a part of Everyone In, a campaign powered by United Way focused on ending homelessness across Los Angeles County.

Everyone In builds community support to encourage our elected leaders to find solutions that are permanent, not band-aids or quick fixes. The goal is simple: deliver on the promise that was made when 1.5 million voters who passed Measure H and Proposition HHH in 2016 and 2017 and ensure that each dollar is spent wisely and goes to the goal of providing services and creating supportive housing throughout Los Angeles.

Join Abundant Housing LA as we host this Supportive Housing Advocacy Training presented by Everyone In. We'll learn effective messaging and find opportunities for advocacy in support of housing for the unhoused.... See MoreSee Less

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Renters & the Housing Crisis - November Panel Series

Nov 25 Mon 6:30 pm - Nov 25 Mon 8:00 pm

Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 Map

Join Abundant Housing LA for a panel discussion on the impacts of the housing crisis on renters.

On the panel will be CA State Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), who was instrumental in passing AB 1482 in the 2019 state legislative session , which caps rent hikes at 5% plus inflation. Assemblymember Bloom has also been actively involved in Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) reform and holding the region accountable for a compliant RHNA methodology.

He will be joined by Michael Lens, Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies; Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy. Professor Lens' work evaluates the potential for housing policy to reduce this separation by focusing on neighborhood safety and access to jobs.

Alex Fisch, Councilmember in Culver City, will also be joining to share his perspective on the ways that Culver City is considering its renting population as it makes new housing policies, including rent freeze.

The panel will be moderated by Leonora Camner, Managing Director of Abundant Housing LA.
There will be snacks & beverages.

**Parking for this event is not allowed at the Helms Bakery District.**

Please use transit to come to this event if possible. The Helms Design Center is a short walk from the Culver City Expo Station.

RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/renters-the-housing-crisis-exploring-challenges-current-policies-tickets-801...... See MoreSee Less

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Protest NIMBYism!

Nov 21 Thu 1:00 pm - Nov 21 Thu 2:30 pm

Department 82 at 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Map

Note - Fix the City has postponed their hearing to November.

Come help us protest Fix the City - an ultra NIMBY organization that sues against housing and density.

Fix the City is suing the City of LA over the Expo TNP (which increases housing zoned capacity along the Expo) and over TOC, which is a policy promoting more housing density and subsidized affordable housing.

We need to show up and tell these NIMBYs that enough is enough. We have a housing crisis, an affordability crisis, a homelessness crisis, and a climate crisis! Exclusionary tactics like these are no longer acceptable. At a time when we need a huge increase in housing, Fix the City is using baseless lawsuits to make even *less* housing possible.

---This advocacy opportunity is easy for those who live/work near DTLA - just stop by around lunch! It's right at the Civic Center metro stop----... See MoreSee Less

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Housing Party!

Nov 15 Fri 6:00 pm - Nov 15 Fri 7:30 pm

L'Opera Ristorante101 Pine AveLong Beach, CA90802 Map

Abundant Housing LA and YIMBY Action are teaming up for a fun event in Long Beach! YIMBYest of legislators Senator Scott Wiener & Assemblymember David Chiu will toast the night, and other pro-housing legislators (in town for the Democratic Convention) will likely stop by.

Increase the density of this party by RSVPing now!

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AHLA Blog

Why do so many anti-development groups try to cast YIMBYs as just entitled, privileged and white? And why this is so far from the truth!

by Stanley Johnson | Dec 6, 2019 | Uncategorized

My name is Stanley Johnson, an African American, and I have been a part of the YIMBY movement since late 2016. Like so many Angelenos, I came to this city from out of state. I moved to a small studio apartment in Hollywood next to Paramount Studios in 2003. It was...

LOS ANGELES DESPERATELY NEEDS SB50

by AbundantHousingLA | Dec 3, 2019 | Uncategorized

Challenging False Claims of Gentrification and Displacement By Randy Shaw Republished with permission from BeyondChron Los Angeles has the nation’s worst homelessness and affordability crisis. So why is the city intent on continuing the policies that helped create...

The Housing Advocate – 11/12/19

by Leonora Camner | Nov 12, 2019 | The Housing Advocate

1) SCANPH Debate: Scott Weiner Vs. John Mirisch Recently, thanks to SCANPH and the wonderful housing podcast “Gimme Shelter,” we had the pleasure of listening to two key figures in our state’s battles over housing debate each other. The participants were: 1) Scott...

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