Redefining Affordable Housing: A Deep Dive on Angeleno
Date & Time: Thursday, March 26th | 3PM - 4PM EST
Hosted by: Thesis Driven
For much of the past several decades, affordable housing development in Los Angeles has operated on a single model: layer public subsidies, compete for limited tax credit allocations, stitch together five or six funding sources, and wait. Projects routinely took five to seven years to reach construction. In a region short more than 500,000 homes — where more than half a million households spend over half their income on rent — that pace has proven wholly inadequate.
That paradigm is shifting.
A convergence of local and state policy reform is rewriting the development calculus. Mayor Bass' Executive Directive 1 (now known as the Affordable Housing Incentive Program, or AHIP) created an expedited ministerial approval pathway for 100% affordable projects. AHIP expanded density bonuses and development incentives. State legislation widened the envelope further, reducing parking requirements, adding height allowances, and expanding density bonus provisions. Together, these reforms are enabling a genuinely new model: affordable housing entitled faster, financed primarily with private capital, and delivered without the traditional subsidy bottleneck.
Angeleno Investments was founded to capitalize on precisely this shift. The firm has built a vertically integrated platform for affordable and workforce housing development within the City of Los Angeles — combining proprietary sourcing technology, in-house construction capability, and deep nonprofit and public-sector relationships to move projects from site identification through stabilization under the city's evolving regulatory framework.
The result is a return profile built on durability: structural demand from a persistent shortage of attainable housing, below-market rent positioning that reduces lease-up risk, and a defensive operating profile across economic cycles — with yield-on-cost upside for projects serving Section 8 voucher holders.
Join us for a 60-minute live conversation with Brandon Hance, CEO of Angeleno Investments, as we unpack how vertically integrated affordable housing development is emerging as a repeatable institutional strategy in Los Angeles.
In this session, we'll cover:
Why LA's housing crisis has persisted despite billions in bond funding and political momentum
The policy shift — ED1, AHIP, and state legislation — creating a new development pathway
How Angeleno's vertically integrated platform translates policy tailwinds into actual units
Case study: Colfax Blvd, Valley Village
Affordable housing as a durable institutional asset class
Speakers Include:
The Founder
Brandon Hance — CEO, Angeleno Investments
The Interviewers
Paul Stanton, Thesis Driven
Brad Hargreaves, Thesis Driven
🔴 Register now to hear how Angeleno Investments is structuring the next generation of affordable housing development in Los Angeles.