The City of Los Angeles is committed to providing affordable housing and amenity-rich, sustainable neighborhoods for its residents, answering the variety of housing needs of its growing population. Toward this end: The City of Los Angeles will achieve this goal amidst a variety of governmental, infrastructure, and market constraints to residential development through aligning its actions in accordance with four detailed goals, each of which contain objectives, policies, and implementing programs. A City where housing production and preservation result in an adequate supply of ownership and rental housing that is safe, healthy and affordable to people of all income levels, races, ages, and suitable for their various needs, where housing helps to create safe, livable and sustainable neighborhoods, where there are housing opportunities for all without discrimination.

A City committed to preventing and ending homelessness. The objectives under each goal further speak to the nuances of housing needs across a city as diverse in population and housing needs as Los Angeles. The corresponding policies formulate the City’s housing approach of creating sustainable mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods strategically located across the City that provide opportunities for housing, jobs, transit and basic amenities for all segments of the population. Each program was crafted to meet particular housing needs of the City, whether they are renters or homeowners, or populations with special needs.