Resident-Led Housing
We cultivate land and housing stewardship by nurturing class solidarity among neighbors.
LA Más collaborates with working class communities of color in Northeast LA to create alternative forms of affordable housing that allow residents to stay in their neighborhoods. Through popular education, policy advocacy, and technical/financial support, LA Más helps residents collectively purchase and steward housing together. Unique to our approach is the practice of economic cooperation between working class community members and higher income allies, ongoing cooperative training, and centering local residents in the process.
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Technical & financial support for mixed income neighbors to collectively buy housing or for LA Más to initiate acquisition.
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Facilitation for housing co-ops to share decision-making and build wealth.
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Workshops, tool kits and cultural exchanges to make housing resources more accessible and share alternative models.
IMPACT
Working class renters are prepared to purchase housing with neighbors;
Private and public resources are directed to Northeast LA so that longtime community members have the option to stay in their neighborhood;
Community members understand all the ways to participate in cooperative housing;
LA Más demonstrates an alternative to affordable housing by facilitating a range of collective housing models;
Preservation of existing and new affordable housing for working class communities of color.
