Concerned about the role that large green infrastructure investments were playing in contributing to the growing affordable housing and homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, LA ROSAH came together to promote multi-benefit investments that support healthy, sustainable, and equitable development for all residents in the Los Angeles region. Our goal is to promote new strategies to combat the issue of green gentrification, create models of development that would expand low-income communities’ access to nature, and ensure that green investments are accompanied by policies mitigating their risk for gentrification and displacement.

Our members create opportunities to connect two largely independent fields of practice—the environmental conservation and urban greening investment system with the affordable housing investment system. We hope that this informs the creation of a joint-development framework and pilot projects that demonstrate the value of integrating affordable housing with public open space that can be replicated in the greater Los Angeles region, and elsewhere.