Join a conversation with journalist Alissa Walker and LAFI Executive Director David Levitus about the Vienna social housing model, spotlighted in the August 2024 issue of Report Forward, David’s experiences visiting Vienna social housing last Spring, and the exciting new possibilities for social housing in LA County.

Social housing is a “public option” for housing — it’s permanently affordable, under community control, generally mixed-income, and outside the speculative real estate market. The social housing movement in LA County is also focused on ensuring that social housing is resident-run, rather than managed by large corporate or government bureaucracies, and that it offers pathways to ownership. In Vienna, about 40 percent of the housing stock falls under the broad definition. And over the last two years, dozens of LA elected officials, nonprofit leaders, and housing policy experts have traveled to Vienna to tour some of the most famous examples. These delegations, organized by the Global Policy Leadership Academy, have sparked high-level conversations around social housing models right in LA at the time that funding is available to actually turn ideas into action

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