Improve Equity and Diversity

• The Human Services Division provides social services, health education, and information to the community to improve the quality of life for those in need. Services include necessities of life such as food and shelter; AIDS education; pre-school education for young children; job placement; legal services; mental health services; and homeless services. 
• Strategic Initiative’s current work includes: 
  • Poverty Reduction Initiative: Creates innovative interventions for low-income residents in WeHo, such as the City’s pilot for guaranteed income for older adults. 
  • West Hollywood Homeless Initiative: connect people experiencing homelessness with basic resources, temporary shelter, behavioral health services, and long-term supportive housing. 

Prepare and Protect Those Most Vulnerable to Increasing Extreme Heat 

• The Facilities Division implements actions necessary to advance the Urban Forest Management Plan, including: Assessing the state of West Hollywood’s urban forest, including an establishment study of young trees and a tree condition assessment. Expanding future tree planting areas, where possible, to allow for greater soil volume that will support larger, mature trees in the city. Prioritized planting in locations with lower tree canopy and greater exposure to health and environmental burdens (i.e. Eastside neighborhoods). 

Encourage Preparedness and Quicker Recovery Among Community Members 

• Public Safety continues utilizing neighborhood networks to expand community outreach through Neighborhood Watch Groups and offer public education programs to enhance public safety, such as National Night Out and CERT Trainings. 
• Long Range Planning is developing a community climate resilience and action toolkit that includes resource conservation tips and information about how to prepare for and respond to climate-related emergencies such as including heat waves, power outages, drought, flash flooding, and wildfires.  

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• Integrate resilience principles into government to prioritize our most vulnerable people, places, and systems.
  • As part of WeHo Climate Action, the City is formalizing sustainability and resilience priorities in City operations, budgeting, processes, and performance management.
• Restore, rebuild, and modernize infrastructure
  •  Building & Safety continues to improve the seismic safety of WeHo's most vulnerable apartment buildings through the WeHo Seismic Retrofit Program.
• Provide safe and fair housing for all
  • Multiple departments in the City implement its Housing Element through facilitation of affordable housing, supportive programs for fair housing, and land use and zoning changes to encourage affordable housing production. 
  • The West Hollywood RSO (Rent Stabilization Ordinance) provides tenant protections regardless of when the building was built and has additional rent increase limits and maintenance requirements for building built before July 2, 1979. 
  • Human Services is developing the Holloway Interim Housing Program, which will offer community members experiencing homelessness a place to stay for 30-90 days while engaging in supportive services and locating permanent housing.
• Accelerate Access to Reliable and Clean Energy
  • The City has been a Clean Power Alliance member since 2019 and defaulted community to 100% Green Power. 
  • Go Solar West Hollywood is a city-sponsored program encouraging property owners to go solar. EnergySage is an online solar marketplace that allows property owners to receive and compare multiple solar quotes first, and then decide which installer is right for them.

To view all programs and efforts that support the City's resilience, click here to view the full matrix. 

• Strengthen Regional Systems and Critical Infrastructure
  
  • Long Range Planning fosters continued collaboration with neighboring jurisdictions and regional partners (Westside Cities, LADOT, Metro, LA County, etc.) on efforts to improve regional public transit (bus, rail, emerging microtransit, and dockless mobility options) and support zero emission mobility options within Southern California. I.E Finish The Line partnership with Metro to advocate for the Crenshaw-LAX rail extension project.
• Form regional alliances for policy advocacy
  • The Legislative Affairs Team, in collaboration with the City’s Sacramento lobbyist, monitors federal and state legislation and engages in advocacy efforts to advance the City’s interests in Sacramento and Washington, DC.

To view all programs and efforts that support the City's resilience, click here to view the full matrix.