We are a city of renters, but for too long, our elected leaders have prioritized the interests of real estate CEOs, luxury developers, and landlords. 

Our current members in office were elected on the promises of protecting tenants and going after bad landlords – and they made it happen. They successfully limited rent increases to 4% in most apartments, and passed the strongest set of tenant protections in our city’s history. 

But we need to go even farther. Here’s what our candidates commit to do when we win in 2026:

• Ensuring every tenant has legal defense and is protected from bad actors by enforcing the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance

• Creating a Department of Tenant Advocacy ensuring renters have habitable housing, know their rights, and can report bad landlords

• Enforcing and improving the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance

• Creating permanently affordable social housing by implementing the United to House LA Measure

• Supporting the creation of a public municipal bank for Los Angeles to save taxpayers millions annually and finance the construction of affordable housing

The City of Los Angeles continuously failed to pass laws to protect our neighbors, despite being home to large, diverse, and vibrant immigrant communities. That wasn’t good enough. 

That’s why our elected DSA-LA members on the City Council crafted and passed the Sanctuary City Ordinance which enshrines sanctuary policies into municipal law and prohibits the use of City resources, including property and personnel, from being utilized for immigration enforcement or to cooperate with federal immigration agents engaged in immigration enforcement, and prohibits the direct and indirect sharing of data with federal immigration authorities – an important gap to close in our city’s protections for immigrants. 

In light of escalating attacks from the Trump administration, it’s clear that much more is needed to properly defend our communities and neighbors. Instead, the Los Angeles Police Department, backed by our current City Attorney, has openly collaborated with ICE kidnappers, while permitting the use of “less-lethal” weapons against their own constituents. 

Our socialists in office have been outvoted in our attempts to limit LAPD’s abuses, but with more of our candidates elected in office, we can commit to: 

• Banning Flock and mass surveillance technology that can be to terrorize our city, ranging from assisting ICE to deport our neighbors or aid the LAPD in prosecuting those seeking abortions

• Ensuring LAPD fully implements the Sanctuary Ordinance and documents immigration raids 

• Ensuring legal services to immigrant Angelenos facing deportation by increasing funding for programs like Represent LA

• Protecting the constitutional rights of protesters with the powers of the Los Angeles City Attorney

• Demilitarizing LAPD by banning the use of weapons like tear gas and launchers against protestors

• Using all available powers to prevent the shipment of arms that violate international law from our ports and airports

Los Angeles is one of the richest cities in the world, but it is increasingly unaffordable for working people like us. We face skyrocketing costs for rent and childcare, all while our wages stagnate. While dozens of billionaires call this city home, over 15% of our city lives in poverty.

Our socialists in office have championed wage theft investigations and measures to raise the minimum wage for the workers that make this city work. By electing more socialists this cycle, we can:

• Raising the minimum wage for more workers across the city

• Prosecuting wage theft, which affects almost 90% of low-wage workers

• Ensuring all parents who want or need childcare can access affordable, high-quality options by expanding city-, county- and LAUSD-run childcare services.

• Taxing the Rich by supporting the 2026 ballot measure to tax overpaid CEOs

A healthy, equitable, and green Los Angeles means quality public transportation and enforced pedestrian safety. This city runs on the working class, and working-class Angelenos need safe and efficient ways to get around the city.

Our socialists in office have consistently supported transit and pedestrian friendly improvements in their districts. But with a larger bloc of DSA-LA members in office, we can go even farther by:

• Reducing traffic fatalities, gridlock, and smog by creating a cohesive network of public transportation by supporting the full implementation of Measure HLA (Health Streets LA) and LA's 2035 Mobility Plan

• Protecting families, pedestrians, and cyclists by implementing wider sidewalks, protected crosswalks, and expanding recreational pedestrian-only spaces

• Making Los Angeles greener by expanding parks, planting trees, and restoring native plants to support biodiversity

• Stopping speeding cars by creating traffic-calming measures at our most dangerous intersections and arterials 

• Fixing our streets, lighting, and sidewalks—and delivering bike and bus lanes quickly—by improving the MyLA311 system and implementing a citywide capital infrastructure plan