Los Angeles councilmembers are held responsible for housing in their districts, and they hold each other responsible for it. No city source publishes the two measures together: how many homes were permitted in each district over time, and exactly when each member took office.
We built both. Tenure comes from the City Clerk's vote record, using each member's first recorded floor vote rather than a roster date, and unit counts come from every Los Angeles building permit since 2020 that changes the number of dwellings on a parcel.
Here is what each sitting member's district permitted during their own time in office.
| District | Member | In office since | Net units | Per year | Share of existing homes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Heather Hutt | Sep 2022 | 6,558 | 1,670 | 5.97% |
| 13 | Hugo Soto-Martinez | Dec 2022 | 5,018 | 1,372 | 4.35% |
| 11 | Traci Park | Dec 2022 | 4,269 | 1,167 | 3.47% |
| 2 | Adrin Nazarian | Dec 2024 | 1,375 | 826 | 1.43% |
| 8 | Marqueece Harris-Dawson | Jul 2015 | 4,917+ | 744+ | 6.24%+ |
| 6 | Imelda Padilla | Jul 2023 | 2,024 | 653 | 2.54% |
| 3 | Bob Blumenfield | Jul 2013 | 4,310+ | 652+ | 4.65%+ |
| 9 | Curren Price | Jul 2013 | 4,300+ | 651+ | 6.69%+ |
| 1 | Eunisses Hernandez | Dec 2022 | 2,257 | 617 | 2.50% |
| 15 | Tim McOsker | Dec 2022 | 2,194 | 600 | 2.65% |
| 5 | Katy Yaroslavsky | Dec 2022 | 2,116 | 578 | 1.76% |
| 4 | Nithya Raman | Dec 2020 | 3,219 | 570 | 2.64% |
| 12 | John Lee | Aug 2019 | 3,116+ | 472+ | 3.46%+ |
| 14 | Ysabel Jurado | Dec 2024 | 690 | 414 | 0.69% |
| 7 | Monica Rodriguez | Jul 2017 | 1,152+ | 174+ | 1.61%+ |
Net homes permitted per year, during each member's own time in office
Tenure is each member's first recorded floor vote. Hatched bars mark the five members who took office before the permit record begins in 2020, so their rates are floors.
A plus sign marks the five members who took office before the permit record begins in January 2020. Their totals cover only the part of their tenure the data reaches, so those five figures are floors, and they are not comparable to the other ten on raw totals.
Heather Hutt's district leads on both measures that can be compared across members, permitting a net 6,558 homes in under four years, about 1,670 a year. On the share of a district's existing housing stock, Curren Price's District 9 leads at 6.69 percent, with Marqueece Harris-Dawson's District 8 at 6.24 and Hutt's District 10 at 5.97, and the first two of those are floors.
At the other end, Monica Rodriguez's District 7 has permitted 174 net homes a year, roughly a tenth of Hutt's rate, in a district of comparable population.
Fewer than 8 percent of District 10's permitted units are complete
The completion figures are the reason the table above cannot be read as a scoreboard of homes delivered.
A permit records an approval rather than a finished building. Of the 6,558 net units permitted in District 10 during Hutt's tenure, 517, under 8 percent, have reached completion. In Traci Park's district the completed figure is negative 33, meaning that among permits that have actually finished, demolitions have outnumbered new construction. Ysabel Jurado's district shows five completed units against 690 permitted.
Completion rates here mostly reflect how long a project takes and how long a member has been in office, so they should not be read as a ranking. Construction in Los Angeles routinely takes three to five years from permit to certificate of occupancy, which leaves a member elected in 2022 or 2024 with a pipeline rather than a record. The members whose completion rates look strong are the ones who have been there longest: John Lee's district shows 63 percent of permitted units completed, Curren Price's 51 percent, Harris-Dawson's 42 percent.
Which is why the comparison has to be permits per year: anyone ranking councilmembers by completed units is ranking them by how long ago they were elected.
In the Valley, the new housing is backyards
The sharper split is in the kind of housing each district gets, and on that measure the city divides cleanly in two.
An accessory dwelling unit is a backyard cottage or a converted garage. California legalized them over local objections in a series of laws from 2017 onward, stripping cities of most of their ability to say no. They are the one kind of housing a Los Angeles councilmember has almost no power to block.
| District | Member | Share of new units that are ADUs |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | Monica Rodriguez | 72.1% |
| 12 | John Lee | 35.2% |
| 3 | Bob Blumenfield | 28.9% |
| 6 | Imelda Padilla | 22.4% |
| 2 | Adrin Nazarian | 21.6% |
| 5 | Katy Yaroslavsky | 20.2% |
| 4 | Nithya Raman | 19.6% |
| 14 | Ysabel Jurado | 18.7% |
| 11 | Traci Park | 13.6% |
| 15 | Tim McOsker | 11.1% |
| 1 | Eunisses Hernandez | 11.0% |
| 8 | Marqueece Harris-Dawson | 9.8% |
| 13 | Hugo Soto-Martinez | 9.4% |
| 9 | Curren Price | 8.1% |
| 10 | Heather Hutt | 5.3% |
In District 7, 72.1 percent of every new home permitted is a unit the city has almost no authority to refuse. In Districts 12 and 3 it is over a quarter. Those are the three northern Valley districts, and they are the three lowest-density parts of the city.
At the other end, Districts 10, 9 and 13 are permitting apartment buildings, and their ADU shares sit under a tenth.
Read the two tables together: in the three northern Valley districts, between 28.9 and 72.1 percent of newly permitted homes are units the city has least authority over, and total volume in those districts is low even so.
What a councilmember controls
Three things stand between a member and their district's number.
The first is councilmanic prerogative, the informal custom by which the council defers to the local member on land use in their district. It is real, but it is a custom rather than a rule and it does not operate on every project.
The second is that most of what determines permitting is outside any member's control: the interest rate, the price of construction, where the zoning already allows density, whether there is land, and increasingly what Sacramento has made by-right. District 10 contains large multifamily-zoned corridors. District 7 contains the far north Valley.
The third is timing. A permit issued in a member's first year was in the pipeline before they were sworn in.
Method
Unit counts come from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety's record of permits issued from January 2020 to August 10, 2026, restricted to the 48,149 permits that change a parcel's dwelling-unit count. Net units are units added minus units removed, so a project that demolishes four homes and builds forty counts as thirty-six. Our aggregation reconciles exactly with the city's own district totals across all fifteen districts.
Tenure is each member's first recorded floor vote in the City Clerk's vote system, not a published roster date, because the roster's start dates were never sourced. This has one known consequence worth stating: a member sworn in during a recess registers on their first voting day rather than their first day in office, a difference of days to a few weeks.
Three limits define what this can measure.
The permit record starts in 2020, so for Blumenfield, Price, Harris-Dawson, Rodriguez and Lee this covers part of a longer tenure. Their totals are floors and are marked as such.
A permit marks an approval rather than a finished home. Completed-only figures are published beside every total and are biased by how recently a member took office.
2026 is a partial year, ending August 10, which affects every district equally and makes every per-year rate very slightly conservative.
Percent of existing stock uses each district's current occupied housing units as the denominator, which is the stock at the end of the period rather than the beginning. That understates the percentage slightly, and identically, for everyone.