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Planning department: Los Angeles produced 17,195 permits in 2024 but remains far below RHNA targets
Summary
City Planning presented the 2024 Annual Progress Report: 17,195 permits issued in 2024, strong affordable housing production compared with a decade earlier, and early signs from the new CHIP incentive program—about 8,500 proposed units in four months—though the city remains well short of its Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) target.
The Department of City Planning told the Housing and Homelessness Committee on March 31 that Los Angeles issued 17,195 building permits in 2024 and recorded strong affordable housing production, but remains far short of its RHNA target.
Planning staff said the city’s RHNA target over the housing element period is approximately 456,000 units and that the current pace—roughly 20,000–33,00 units per year in recent years—falls well short of the pace required. The department reported 17,195 permits in 2024 (an 8% decline from the prior year) and emphasized that to meet RHNA the city would need to build roughly 57,000 units per year.
The presentation highlighted that ADUs and multifamily…
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