Permanent Housing for All: A Bus Tour Through LA’s Bold Solutions
All eyes are on Los Angeles as frontline advocates and community organizations drive bold, innovative solutions to the city’s housing crisis.
On our recent “Permanent Housing for All: Building the Good in Boyle Heights” bus tour, Liberty Hill community partners and donor activists traveled through the heart of Boyle Heights to see housing justice in action—meeting with organizers, residents, and movement leaders who are transforming what’s possible for Angelenos.
In partnership with Inner City Struggle, Community Power Collective, Inclusive Action, Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust, and Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre (FCTL), the tour offered an inside look at the strategies keeping families housed. Guests visited sites showcasing the future of social housing—from successful affordable housing developments to community land trusts and powerful models of grassroots housing justice organizing.
Movement leaders Carla de Paz (Community Power Collective), Rudy Espinoza (Inclusive Action), and Vanessa Gonzalez (FCTL) shared firsthand how these community-driven solutions are reshaping neighborhoods and protecting long-term residents from displacement and gentrification.
Carla shared, “This type of event helps elevate the voices of the community by exposing what this community is like—its history, its current struggles, and its resilience—to folks that might not know about it but who can bring opportunity to the people in the community.” She continued, “We’re excited that folks are interested and can become partners in helping us fight for justice in Boyle Heights.”
For years, frontline community-based organizations have been building a regional vision for community-controlled housing. Organizers are expanding permanently affordable housing, advancing cooperative models, and strengthening resident-led stewardship to secure long-term housing justice.
“My hope is that donors walk away from this tour having a better understanding of all the work that it takes to put together a winning campaign and really understanding the ‘why’ residents do this work,” shared Mike Denis, Senior Director of Housing Justice at Liberty Hill. “We get lost a lot in the technical aspects of policy making but we forget about the lived experience that residents are facing on a daily basis.”
The truth is the scale of today’s housing crisis demands even greater investment, political will, and collective action—and Liberty Hill is here for the long haul. We are proud to stand with the frontline organizations leading this work and fighting for a Los Angeles where every resident has access to a safe, stable, and permanently affordable home.
