Mayor Bass Announces Record 10,000+ Units of Affordable Housing Built Under Her Administration

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Four Times More Affordable Housing Built Annually Compared to Each of the Five Years Before Mayor Bass Took Office

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass today was joined by Councilmember Imelda Padilla and community leaders to announce that her administration has successfully built more than 10,000 units of affordable housing across Los Angeles - four times more affordable housing units built yearly compared to the prior five years. Since taking office, Mayor Bass has used her executive power to cut red tape and eliminate the bureaucratic barriers that have slowed housing production in Los Angeles for decades. Photos of the event are available here.

"Since day one, I have focused on making life more affordable for Angelenos by building the affordable housing that we desperately need. I worked with the business community, developers, labor groups, and affordable housing advocates to identify and eliminate the bureaucracy that has held Los Angeles back - now, we're seeing the results," said Mayor Bass. "We've already built a record 10,000+ affordable housing units, and we're not slowing down. I'll continue accelerating housing production across L.A. to build the housing people can afford."

"As the new chair of the housing committee, my focus is clear on getting to work. Los Angeles needs more housing, and we need to use every tool available to build the housing Angelenos need to stay in their communities, raise their families, and thrive," Councilmember Imelda Padilla said. "In my district, we have moved with urgency, building affordable housing, permanent supportive housing and interim housing, and I am proud to take that work and expand it across Los Angeles."

From 2018-2022, the City of Los Angeles was building, on average, nearly 700 units of affordable housing per year. Since taking office, Mayor Bass' administration has built an average of nearly 2,800 units of affordable housing per year - over 4x more per year. Despite major tariffs being imposed on basic building materials by the federal administration, as well as rising interest rates and energy costs, Mayor Bass has also continued to maintain the City's construction of market-rate housing. In total, under Mayor Bass, the City of Los Angeles is creating nearly 16% more housing per year, compared to the five years before she took office.

Mayor Bass has made housing affordability a cornerstone of her administration's work, reversing decades of inaction from City Hall to rapidly accelerate building across Los Angeles:

• She signed Executive Directive 1 during her first week in office to slash red tape and streamline the approval of 100% affordable housing. More than 47,000 units of affordable housing are now in the pipeline due to her action. In December 2025, the City Council voted unanimously in favor of making the directive a permanent city ordinance.

• Her administration implemented the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP), the largest local rezoning program in modern history that creates the capacity for half a million new homes and opens up more of the city to housing - along major corridors, near transit, and in neighborhoods where people already live and work.

• She issued the inaugural "Homes for L.A." Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), awarding $360 million in local funding to create and preserve more than 5,000 affordable housing units, following a $14 million allocation for rental assistance. This NOFA was made possible primarily from funds from Measure ULA.

• She expanded the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance citywide to convert vacant office buildings and parking lots into housing to create the capacity for more than 43,000 new homes.

• She signed Executive Directive 19 to modernize and streamline how the City reviews and processes building applications, responding directly to the barriers that applicants, developers, and contractors have identified as impediments to building in Los Angeles.

• She released four Missing Middle LA draft ordinances to make it easier to build smaller, more affordable options for homebuyers and renters, like duplexes and accessory dwelling units (ADUs).

See affordable housing construction per Council District below: