Claudia Monterrosa is the Director of the Policy and Planning Unit of the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD). She supervises a team of professionals that advise, through qualitative and quantitative analysis, the LAHD’s General Manager and executive management on a wide range of housing-related policies, legislation, rules and regulations promulgated at the local, state and federal levels of government. The LAHD is the principal housing agency of the City of Los Angeles, charged with the development of citywide housing policy and supporting safe and livable neighborhoods through the promotion and development of decent, affordable housing.
Ms. Monterrosa leads a unit that helped secure the City‘s first MacArthur Foundation grant; a significant grant awarded to enhance the affordable housing preservation program. Her team played an instrumental role in the successful application of three Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) rounds of funding totaling $142.8 million to help address the City’s foreclosure crisis. Under her leadership, she and her staff have embarked on policy and data analysis of transit-oriented development and the sustainability issues. This includes the mapping, analysis, and development of equitable policies and tools to help promote the creation of new affordable housing units as well as to protect existing affordable and rent stabilized housing units located within existing and new transit corridors and stations throughout the City. Most recently, she and her team have been charged to lead in the mapping and data analysis for preparation and completion of the City’s upcoming Five-Year Consolidated plan.
Ms. Monterrosa’s experience includes leadership positions at the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.