Sign the Housing is Health Pledge Today + Running for Neighborhood Council 101
RUNNING FOR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL 101 - Thursday, December 10th at 7:30 PM
There are 99 Neighborhood Councils across the City of Los Angeles. They’re a unique way to learn about how local government works and to influence important policy decisions. Historically these official advisory bodies have been conservative and NIMBYish but we're seeing progressives start to win seats and even gain majorities.
Elections are being held March through June of 2021 and the filing deadlines to become a candidate are coming up soon. We’re encouraging all progressive Angelenos to consider running for office in their own neighborhood. To help you decide whether to run and to show you how you can be effective, we’re hosting an info session this Thursday.
Join Neighborhood Council members — past, present, and future — to learn how YOU can run to represent your neighborhood! No need to have already made up your mind. Anyone curious to learn more is welcome. Please RSVP for the Zoom info.
On Thursday, December 3, over 1500 Los Angeles residents tuned in to Healthy LA's #CancelRent and #CancelMortgages Teach-In via Zoom and Facebook Live. The event was simultaneously translated into Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, and Armenian and offered a space to discuss our policy platform with tenants, landlords, homeowners, advocates, Councilmember Mike Bonin, Councilmember-elect Nithya Raman, and County Supervisor Hilda Solis' Planning Deputy, Guadalupe Duran. The conversation uplifted the difficult queries around what rent and mortgage cancelation would mean and look like in LA County. We introduced our policy platform two-pager and an animation explaining the policy.
The powerful stories from tenants, homeowners and landlords had a visible effect on the legislators and their staff in attendance. We’ve already received feedback that they felt the pressure to urgently take action. It’s critical that we seize this momentum and turn up the pressure on all of our LA Council Members and Supervisors!
Please take action NOW by sending a message that urges our local elected officials to sign the Housing is Health Pledge: http://healthyla.org/pledge/
As we head into a second major shutdown, with over 7,800 Angelinos who have passed, and ICU beds being severely limited, elected officials need to do everything in their power to keep residents safe, housed, and healthy. Lack of eviction protections across the country have led to over 433,000 more COVID cases, and 10,700 deaths. Housing is health! Elected officials need to know that the people they serve urgently need them to take action to protect the most vulnerable Angelinos! It is a matter of life and death.
We also have a Take Action Toolkit with all of the instructions you need to uplift how we can keep Angelinos healthy!
Below are some quick links and instructions! It will take you 5 minutes to do all of them.