October 2013 newsletter

Fall is here – and there are so many ways to connect with your LA Forward fam! Don’t miss our housing happy hours in the SGV – we’ll be in San Gabriel on October 26 and Pomona on November 9! The next meeting of LA Forward Institute's Housing Justice Reading Group is coming up – read along with us and join us for an interactive community discussion in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area. And the LA City Council races are heating up! If you missed LA Forward Institute's candidate forums, watch now and learn more about the people and policies competing to represent these Los Angeles districts.    

Upcoming events:

We’re hosting not one, but two happy hours in the San Gabriel Valley this fall to bring our community together in conversation about how we can raise our voices in support of affordable housing. Join our team, and the volunteers and community leaders that make up our SGV membership.

  • We’ll be in San Gabriel on October 26 – come hang with us at Ogopogo Brewing from 6-8 pm! RSVP now.

  • Then, on November 9, we’ll be at Brew Works in Pomona from 6-8 pm for our housing happy hour. Sign up here.

This month, we’re reading Red Hot City by Dan Immergluck for LA Forward Institute's Housing Justice Reading Group. Immergluck explores recents trends in Atlanta that are inverting its late-twentieth century urban model. Read the book and join us for an in-person reading group meeting in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area on Sunday, October 29th at 7 pm. We’ll explore the book’s relevance to the Los Angeles context, and discuss the lessons for policymakers, activists, and residents.

RSVP now to join us to talk about Red Hot City.    

ICYMI: LA Forward Institute hosted the first candidate forums in the upcoming 2024 LA City Council races. Don’t miss these informative, non-partisan conversations with candidates for Council districts 2, 4, 10, and 14, which attracted 23 candidates and over 600 Angelenos to attend these conversations. Candidates engaged with district residents and community partners about important topics such as unarmed crisis response, social housing, City Council expansion, LA’s mobility plan, climate policy, and much more. If you missed the forums, you can watch now on LA Forward Institute's website.

Thanks for being a part of the LA Forward community. We’ll see you soon!

In solidarity,
The LA Forward team

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