Over 50% of Angelenos are renters. 50% of LA City renters spend over 30% of income on rent. To keep people housed, it's crucial we keep housing affordable.

If you want to attend the meeting or follow along online, you can find the agenda here: lacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...

You can also submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com - The Council File # is 23-1134

Come to the committee meeting to give public comment!

Wed. 11/5 2pm at City Hall

Agenda: lacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=147040

(You can also submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com - put 23-1134 as Council File #)

How much should rent be allowed to increase each year?

City Council is currently debating this for rent-stabilized units (most homes built before Oct 1, 1978).

The Housing & Homelessness Committee COULD be voting on this NEXT WEEK.

Be sure to tell your councilmember what you think!

Top 5 zip codes with the most eviction notices from Jan - Sept 2025:

90028 (Hollywood): 3,472 notices
90015 (DTLA, South Park): 3,109
90012 (DTLA, Chinatown): 2,667
90017 (Westlake): 2,318
91367 (Woodland Hills): 2,241

📍 evictions.lacontroller.app

From Jan - Sept 2025, the average rent owed for households in LA that received an eviction notice is $3,952

See our updated eviction notices map and analysis at 📍 evictions.lacontroller.app

Our Audits & Assessments:
Completed:
- LAPD Mental Evaluation Unit
- Affordable Housing Oversight
- TAHO
- Pathways to Permanent Housing
- LAPD Military Equipment
- LAPD Helicopters
- Interim Housing

In progress:
- CARE/CARE+
- Animal Services
- Risk Management

Check out the full report to see more of our findings & recommendations:
bit.ly/lapdmeu

👉Rec: LAPD should revise its policy to
↪Direct how to de-escalate
↪Give clear guidance on dealing w/mental crises
↪Eliminate handcuffing nonviolent people in mental crisis
↪Require more training for MEU & sworn officers
↪Allow SMART to lead certain mental health calls

🔎Finding: LAPD fails to give SMART needed tools:
↪Use-of-force policies are vague
↪No clear policy guidance for dealing w/ mental crises
↪Handcuffing people in mental crisis is required
↪No specialized training
↪SMART officers armed
↪SMART not allowed to lead responses where weapons aren’t involved

🔎Finding: SMART’s performance is measured by how quickly they relieve patrol officers from on-scene duties, not by their impact on outcomes.
👉Recommendation: LAPD should develop ways to measure SMART's impact on mental health incidents and use of force incidents.

🔎Finding: SMART’s focus is (1) relieving patrol officers from mental health calls; (2) involuntary mental health detentions
👉Recs: (1) LAPD should find ways to measure SMART's impact on mental health calls; (2) Clinicians’ role should be re-evaluated to be used in more ways.

📝MAIN FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS

🔎Finding: LAPD *requires* an armed, police-first response to mental health related calls, led by patrol units.
👉Recommendation: LAPD should revise its policy to allow SMART units to lead mental health related calls which don’t involve weapons.

MEU is the LAPD unit whose main role is to respond to mental health calls.

Within MEU, SMART units co-respond to these calls (along with LAPD patrol units).

SMART units are 1 armed officer + 1 mental health clinician.

(“SMART” = Systemwide Mental Assessment Response Team)

GIVE PUBLIC COMMENT AT THE CHARTER REFORM COMMISSION!

This Thursday 10/9 2pm

City Hall Room 1010

Or email ReformLAcharter@lacity.org

reformlacharter.lacity.gov/about/commission-meetings-materials

This is the second time the City has opted for an expensive outside vendor instead of using our Office.

While cost of living continues to rise in LA pushing more ppl into homelessness, and future homelessness funds are at risk, the City spends money it does not have on outside contractors.

The plaintiff suggested that our Office be the monitor, which makes sense since we are independent, have conducted several homelessness related audits, and built the City’s homelessness dashboard.

Unfortunately, the City rejected this idea in favor of an outside contractor.