PROGRAMMING TO LIFT UP LOS ANGELES.

Participatory Budgeting

What is Participatory Budgeting?

L.A. REPAIR Zones

Repair Zones were selected based on a number of factors, including employment and poverty data, home access to Internet, COVID-19 case rates, the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, the CalEnviroScreen environmental index, and historically “redlined” neighborhoods. These nine REPAIR Zones represent more than half of all Angelenos living in poverty, and each REPAIR Zone’s population is at least 87% people of color.

Participatory budgeting gives real people real power over real money. L.A. REPAIR has built California’s largest participatory budgeting program, where nine REPAIR Zones have the power to decide how $8.5 million dollars of the city budget is spent in their neighborhoods.

L.A. REPAIR Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process to give underserved communities a direct say in their future. It deepens democracy, expands transparency, emphasizes Public Ownership of Government Resources, and builds stronger communities.

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33 % OF ZONES REPRESENTING 50 OF ANGELENOS LIVING IN POVERTY. %

In 2022, we rolled out Participatory Budgeting in three REPAIR Zones - Boyle Heights, Mission Hills-Panorama CityNorth Hills, and Southeast LA - garnering hundreds of ideas to be voted on by the community. In 2023, we will begin the process in six REPAIR Zones - and grow from there.

Learn more at repair.lacity.org

Peace & Healing Centers

PROGRESS IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT HEALING.

In many of Los Angeles’ most underserved communities, the impacts of generational trauma, historic disinvestment, and mass incarceration have fractured communities, leaving people without the social tools and resources to grow.

Our Peace & Healing Centers program is bringing $2 million to community-based organizations in nine REPAIR Zones to operate Peace & Healing Centers, focused on social, economic and environmental healing as well as inter-community peace building. Each

Center will offer at least 20 hours a week of opendoor programming, and can provide programs like job training, nutrition and parenting courses, counseling services, and more.

Community-based organizations do incredible work across Los Angeles. Peace & Healing Centers give them the funding to grow their work - and help create a safer & more empowered Los Angeles.

LAUNCHED IN 2021, LA FOR ALL BEGAN WITH THOUSANDS OF POSTERS IN 12 LANGUAGES ON HOW TO REPORT HATE. IN 2022, LA FOR ALL GREW INTO A CITYWIDE MOVEMENT FOR INCLUSION AND SOLIDARITY THAT IS STANDING UP TO HATE LIKE NEVER BEFORE.