We’re Hiring!

Community Housing Manager, LA Más *updated 03.20.2026

Reports to: Executive Director
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Role

LA Más is growing our community housing work, advancing a model of housing that keeps working-class neighbors rooted while shifting power back to community hands.  Since late 2024, we’ve acquired three community-owned properties in Northeast LA, preserving 22 homes at deeply affordable rents for over 65 residents, all without displacement. 

We’re hiring a Community Housing Manager to lead the stewardship of this portfolio and help bring our acquisition pipeline to life. You’ll oversee all aspects of project management —from long-term asset management to day to day property management oversight, including capital improvements to compliance and reporting—and collaborate across our team to ensure residents are respected, engaged, and empowered in decision-making.

This role is for someone who thrives at the intersection of community-rooted care and technical management, with the skills and commitment to grow a first-of-its-kind, community-owned housing model in Los Angeles.

This role reports directly to Helen Leung, Executive Director.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Asset Management: Oversee LA Más’ growing housing portfolio, including financial performance, capital improvements, and long-term sustainability.

  • Maintenance and Repairs: Oversee repairs and capital upgrades in coordination with Property Management partners to ensure resident well-being and compliance with all legal standards.

  • Compliance & Records: Maintain detailed records on property finances, conditions, and tax exemptions; ensure alignment with nonprofit ownership requirements.

  • Property Management Oversight: Supervise our third-party property management firm and uphold a resident-centered approach that prioritizes care, trust, and dignity.

  • Providing support to: 

  • Internal + Board Reporting: Provide timely updates to the Executive Director and support a monthly Community Housing Board Committee meeting with technical advisors.

  • Resident Engagement: Collaborate with the Community Tending team to support meaningful resident participation, including annual resident meetings and voluntary income-sharing for property tax exemption compliance.

  • NELACHA Facilitation: Support  bi-monthly Northeast LA Community Housing Alliance meetings, creating space for education, strategy, and alignment among residents, community members, and partners.

  • Resource Development: Support grant writing, reporting, and relationship-building with funders to advance housing acquisitions and preservation goals.

  • Pipeline Development: Support and resource new acquisitions - vetting and due diligence, and tracking feasibility of properties that meet our internal checklist.

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years experience in asset management, affordable housing, community development, or a related field.

  • Knowledge of residents  rights, rent stabilization, and housing preservation strategies.

  • Strong project management, communication, and financial tracking skills.

  • Alignment with LA Más’ values of racial justice, mutuality, and community-led development.

  • Comfort navigating both technical conversations (e.g., tax exemption, repair bids) and relational processes with residents.

What We Expect From You

  • Shared Values: Belief in our mission, vision, and values - and desire to help realize!

  • Co-Creation: To co-create with the team the processes, practices, and systems that will help LA Más become a sustainable org led by community 

  • Trust: A commitment to building, sustaining, and honoring trust with the team and community.

  • Clear Communications: As a small and mighty team, our work requires clear communications so we can effectively collaborate. 

  • Collaboration: This role is meant to provide areas of focus, but not to limit team contribution in other areas where skills or an extra hand may be needed. 

What to Expect From the Team

  • Change + Iteration: Our existing systems and structures are not set in stone, but rather an interim proposal as we deepen our work. As a result, we may be revisiting prior decisions and making room for emergent strategy. 

  • Conflict Resolution: As we aspire to have a healing-inspired practice in our community work, we are committed to making sure any conflict as a team is addressed explicitly, appropriately, and with care and empathy.

  • Agreeing to Disagree: We may not always agree and that’s okay. We create space to respectfully disagree and opportunities to safely share.

  • Honoring Your Full Self: At a baseline, we want to avoid burnout and as an aspiration, we envision a working culture that honors that each of us have lives outside of work and that it’s encouraged to challenge norms of keeping our personal lives separate - especially when it undermines how we can authentically show up at in our roles.

Decision-making + Agency

  • Values-based: Although there is an Executive Director who is ultimately responsible for the direction of the org, there is an ethos of collective decision-making on all major decisions. We expect that all decisions clearly reflect the mission, vision, and values.

  • Honoring Collective Wisdom: Each team member has work they are leading, which will require collaboration from at least one or two other team members. Rather than having to run a program by yourself, there is always room for team discussion. 

  • Confidence in You: However, there is a lot of autotomy because we recognize each person has specific roles because of expertise and leadership ability - and there is a level of trust the team places in following that person’s direction. 

Organizational Values

  • Grounding our work in the historical resistance from BIPOC & local communities and movements;

  • Honoring a relationship to land that uplifts Indigenous practices and stewardship;

  • Practicing mutuality + interdependence as part of an ecosystem of residents, organizations and coalitions;

  • Celebrating cultural + language diversity by making our spaces accessible and inclusive;

  • Creating spaces of restoration + healing that sustain and support our community’s well-being;

  • Expanding traditional notions of value, knowledge and skills to honor our community’s unique contributions.

Compensation

  • Status: Full-time salaried position at 32 hours/week

  • Salary: $72,000 (equivalent to $90,000 FTE)

  • Benefits:

  • 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision for employees

  • FSA account access

  • Unlimited vacation (with 10-day minimum usage)

  • Paid leave (sick, mental health, bereavement, parental)

  • $1,000 annual professional development stipend

To apply:

Submit your resume and cover letter to info@mas.la; applications accepted until position is filled.