November 12, 2025
ULA Revenues Supercharge Affordable Housing Funds
Applications recently closed for the City of Los Angeles’s largest-ever offering of affordable housing funds.
The current Notice of Funding Availability (or NOFA) makes $387 million available to developers for building, preserving, and operating affordable housing. That’s five times larger than any previous NOFA in LA history, and of those funds, $316 million, or roughly 80%, was raised through Measure ULA.
This money will be used to build new homes for families, seniors, and people exiting homelessness. It will fund the preservation of existing affordable homes. And it will fund innovative new models of homeownership, like social housing.
As big as this pool of money is in historical terms, the applications demonstrate that the demand for affordable housing is much bigger. Applications for multifamily new construction alone totalled more than $520 million. For new construction under alternative models, applications came to more than $600 million.
Perhaps the most exciting thing about this so-called “Super NOFA” is that it is only the first of many to come. State, federal, and local funds are being slashed everywhere you look, but Measure ULA’s stream of dedicated, locally-controlled funding for housing means this level of funding, allowing for natural growth, will remain predictable and reliable into the future.
In other words — you ain’t seen nothing yet!
“Nobody thinks it can happen until it does”
Like so many who end up in that situation, Ve’ona Rogers never thought of herself as someone who would experience homelessness.
Her father had been a community leader in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Green Meadows, and she herself ran a successful cosmetics business that helped support local schools. But after she became sick with lupus, a painful and debilitating autoimmune disease, her life and work were thrown into such chaos that she ultimately lost her home.
“Nobody thinks it can happen to them until it does,” said Rogers. “Everybody thinks that help is for someone else. But tomorrow you can get cancer, or there can be wildfires. I don’t care if you’re a renter or an owner, professional or working class. Someday, you’re going to need help.
”Rogers was able to move back into housing, but her illness made it difficult to consistently pay her rent, and her landlord tried to evict her. Her experience successfully fighting off eviction, supported by organizations including SAJE and TRUST South LA, convinced her to become a supporter of the Measure ULA campaign.
Then, after ULA passed, Rogers became eligible to receive $10,000 in rental assistance to cover her back rent and ensure that she couldn’t be pushed out of her home.
Rogers is proud to count herself among the 11,000 Angelenos who have gotten rental assistance from Measure ULA and the more than 100,000 people who have received ULA outreach and legal assistance to stay in their home.
“That is a powerful gift that we gave ourselves,” said Rogers. “I think about it every day.”
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