HPRI’s Director, Dr. Benjamin Henwood, shares a clear-eyed op-ed regarding the LA Mayoral race and the Olympics and their impacts on the landscapes of housing and homelessness in LA. Whoever wins, whoever governs Los Angeles through 2028, will likely preside over a city that still has tens of thousands of people sleeping outside. Not because they failed. Because the structural conditions driving homelessness cannot be reversed in the time available, not without a scale of investment and housing production that shows no signs of materializing soon.
No Matter Who Wins the Mayor’s Race, Los Angeles Will Still Have a Homelessness Crisis in 2028
Op-ed
Year: 2026