LA outpaces 2025 housing permitting total in first six months of the year

With three years to go before a state-mandated deadline for housing production, Los Angeles’ residential pipeline seems to be ramping up speed.  In the first six months of this year, the City of Los Angeles issued permits for more than 8,800 new homes, Urbanize Los Angeles reported, citing a new report from Hilgard Economics.  For comparison, the first half of last year saw roughly a third of that number, and the city notched about 8,700 residential units permitted in all of 2025. That figure reflects a downturn in permitting early last year after the Palisades and Eaton fires that January, […]

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