Mayor Bass Bolsters Executive Directive 3 for Rapid Housing Development, RV Encampment Solutions

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass expanded Executive Directive 3 to use publicly-owned land to build more housing faster and to address RV encampments by increasing the city’s capacity to tow, store, and dismantle surrendered vehicles. Los Angeles is also building more housing to confront this crisis. More than 14,000 units of affordable housing are now being accelerated as a result of the executive directive to streamline their development.

Since Mayor Bass signed Executive Directive 3 into effect in February 2023, the city has been able to identify sites that can be utilized for up to 500 tiny home beds through a $33 million state grant adopted by city council last week, moved the Go For Broke and First Street North Project to fruition after more than 20 years of predevelopment on city-owned land, and launched interdepartmental working groups to reimagine how city-owned land can facilitate more cost efficient and accelerated production of affordable housing. 

The updated directive accelerates the building of permanent and interim housing on publicly-owned land that is owned by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, Metro and the Los Angeles Community College District, in addition to land owned by the City of Los Angeles. This update ensures that redevelopment projects, such as the Jordan Downs Redevelopment Project, will meet their deadlines.

Mayor Bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness on her first day in office to confront homelessness with the urgency it requires. As part of Executive Directive 3, she directed city departments to conduct an inventory of unused and underutilized city property that could be used for temporary or permanent housing with on-site services. The city administrative officer submitted an analysis of more than 3,000 sites which the mayor’s office has evaluated, which led to a $2.9 million grant award from the Southern California Association of Governments to support Executive Directive 3’s efforts.

Read the expanded Executive Directive here.