LOS ANGELES CREATES CITY’S FIRST PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DATABASE

For Immediate Release: May 7, 2025

Los Angeles, CA – Today, the Los Angeles City Council voted to establish a public-facing comprehensive affordable housing database. Today’s vote approved a three-year contract between the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) and Exygy, Inc. to develop a multilingual online system that allows prospective applicants to search for all available affordable housing in the City of Los Angeles. The creation of this database was initiated by a motion brought forward in 2023 by Councilmember Nithya Raman and seconded by Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson. 

In recent years, the City of Los Angeles has primarily increased its affordable housing supply through incentive programs like the State Density Bonus or the Transit Oriented Communities program. Thousands of new affordable units have been built as part of larger developments of market-rate units. Yet, residents of Los Angeles who qualify for affordable housing do not currently have a straightforward means of finding or applying for this housing. 

Councilmember Raman’s legislation will develop a centralized, comprehensive multilingual system to make it easier for local residents to find and apply for available affordable housing, both publicly subsidized and privately financed, within the City of Los Angeles. This one-stop shop will additionally simplify the process for applicants, allowing them to directly apply for housing based on their needs, preferences, and qualifications. This system will be modeled off of successful databases in cities like San Francisco. 

“We talk a lot about making it easier to build affordable housing, but it is just as critical to make it easy for residents to apply for this new housing,” said Councilmember Raman.  

Council President Harris-Dawson said “I’m so grateful to Councilmember Nithya Raman for her leadership in developing a database for affordable housing. This initiative will fill a critical gap in our system, creating access for Angelenos at a time when affordable housing is increasingly needed.”

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