Cost-of-living and affordability crisis
Affordability is projected to remain a dominant political message in California and Los Angeles through 2026. Refinery-driven energy costs, housing shortages, and service delivery problems are framed by critics as failures of governance, while others push for structural reforms on housing supply, energy infrastructure, and cost relief beyond temporary subsidies. Latino voter polling has also flagged deep concern about affordability.
What is the best way for Los Angeles leaders to tackle the cost-of-living crisis?
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28% call it a high-priority issue (rating it 7+ out of 10).
- Liberal5%
- Lean liberal22%
- Moderate30%
- Lean conservative28%
- Conservative15%
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Expect affordability to remain a dominant political message in 2026. Republicans will frame the crisis as a failure of progressive governance, while Democrats will face pressure to deliver real cost-of-living relief — not just through subsidies, but through longer-term structural reform on housing supply, energy infrastructure, and service delivery.
The last time we polled Latino voters in California, we heard deep concern about affordability and the erosion of trust in institutions
Positions on this issue · liberal → conservative
- Expand subsidies, rent control, and public benefits funded by higher taxes on the wealthy
- Combine targeted aid with public investment in housing, transit, and green energy jobs
- Pursue mixed reforms: some relief spending plus selective deregulation to lower costs
- Cut taxes and regulations on energy and housing to reduce prices through supply growth
- Slash government spending and climate mandates seen as driving up costs for families