Los Angeles residents in need of affordable housing always seem to be asking HOW they can find housing that they can afford. Listed below are two websites that can help residents in need of affordable housing find available units;
https://lahousing.lacity.org/aahr
To find affordable apartments, you can also use traditional apartment listing websites to attempt to find affordable units, be mindful of scams though, and do thorough research! The approximate income bracket for affordable housing in Los Angeles is somewhere in the range of $17,000-$70,000. For most of the affordable housing listings on the websites provided, you do not need a Section 8 voucher as the rent is based on income. If you do have a section 8 voucher, try calling around to some of the newer apartment buildings in LA to ask if they accept Section 8 vouchers, most of them do and most have available openings for residents with vouchers.
The system of finding and securing affordable housing or any housing in LA needs to be completely updated and streamlined. We need to get waitlist times down for residents that need affordable units and again, we need more community-owned housing that is permanently affordable and cannot be sold to private corporations to be used for market-rate housing or kept empty. Rent should never exceed 20-30% of a resident’s total income after taxes!
Stay tuned for more affordable housing proposals for community-owned housing. For the people that need to hear this, what you believe to be the “free private housing market” will always exist but the private market that has proved unreliable should not be allowed to compete against itself, it should not be allowed to displace as many residents as it has with no rebuttal for said residents. Safe, clean, & affordable housing is CRITICAL life support for the well-being of humanity! (define “free market”?!?!)
“If you learned your economics from Heinlein novels or the University of Chicago, you probably think that “free market” describes an economic system that is free from government interference – where all consensual transactions between two or more parties are permissible. But if you went to the source, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, you’ll have found a very different definition of a free market: Smith’s concern wasn’t freedom from governments, it was freedom from rentiers.
A rentier is someone who derives their income from “economic rents”: revenues derived from merely owning something. With a factory, you have workers who contribute labor, you have investors who build and maintain the physical plant, and you have the landlord, who siphons off some of the revenues derived from this activity because of his title to the dirt underneath the factory.
One of the most powerful ways to extract rents is to have a monopoly. A ferryman who charges high prices isn’t necessarily extracting rents (because someone else can build a bridge or run a rival ferry service). But if the ferryman uses his profits to successfully lobby for a ban on bridges and competing ferry services, then he’s extracting rents, because the price his passengers pay are high because there’s no alternative.”
https://locusmag.com/2021/03/cory-doctorow-free-markets/
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