28 Jun LAHD Becomes HCIDLA
To all our housing and neighborhood development partners:
The Mayor and City Council approved the dissolution of the Community Development Department (CDD) effective July 1, 2013 in line with efforts to simplify and consolidate the City’s economic development processes. All functions, programs and services provided by CDD will be integrated into the Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department (HCIDLA) and the Economic Development Department (EDD).
The following community services programs previously managed and administered by CDD will be integrated in HCIDLA:
- FamilySource Centers
- Office of Traffic Safety
- Domestic Violence Services
- Community Action Board
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Human Relations Commission
- Commission on Community and Family Services
- Administration of the Consolidated Plan
- Environmental Review
Any Los Angeles property management company should know that the entire portfolio of programs and services currently managed by the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) will be managed and administered by HCIDLA such as the following:
- Rent Stabilization
- Compliance
- Code Enforcement
- Housing Finance and Development
- Homeownership Program
- Neighborhood Stabilization Program
- Lead Abatement Program
- Affordable Housing Trust Fund
- Asset Management
- HOPWA
- Handyworker Program
HCIDLA will remain at LAHD’s current location, 1200 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90017. Our phone and fax numbers will likewise remain the same.You will also still be able to reach us by e-mail on our City e-mail addresses.
Our website address will now be hcidla.lacity.org.
Editor’s note: For landlords interested in getting “the other side” of what HCIDLA is up to, and for good group therapy if you have been maligned by this city agency, try this website.