Mayor Bass Unveils Largest Affordable Housing Project Under Her Executive Directive One

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Viva L.A. at Warner Center will create nearly 3,200 units of affordable housing to serve LA's senior population

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Karen Bass yesterday was joined by Councilmember Bob Blumenfield and affordable housing developers to unveil the largest affordable housing project created under her Executive Directive 1. Viva L.A. at Warner Center is a ground-breaking, 2 million square foot, assisted living facility in Woodland Hills that will provide nearly 3,200 units of affordable housing for LA's senior population. Photos and renderings available here.

"From day one, I've focused on cutting red tape and creating faster, more predictable approvals so we can start solving our affordability crisis by building more housing - especially affordable housing," said Mayor Bass. "Viva L.A. at Warner Center will provide nearly 3,200 units of affordable senior housing, our largest Executive Directive 1 project to date. With nearly 47,000 units now in the pipeline, we're finally moving with the urgency and scale Angelenos deserve."

"Because of the combination of a developer's ambitious vision, Mayor Bass' streamlined Executive Directive 1, and the Warner Center 2035 Specific Plan that I ushered in more than a decade ago, Viva LA at Warner Center will become a transformative investment in the West San Fernando Valley," said Councilmember Bob Blumenfield. "This project expands affordable housing options for our aging population while making meaningful progress in addressing our housing crisis. I'm excited about this development and the lasting benefits it will bring to our community."

Nearly 47,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline under Mayor Bass' Executive Directive 1, which streamlines the approval process for 100% affordable housing projects in the city. In December 2025, the City Council unanimously voted in favor of making Executive Directive 1 a permanent city ordinance.

"Viva L.A. at Warner Center represents our conviction that affordable housing, paired with assisted living services as needed, can be delivered at the scale and density that California's aging population in core urban centers actually needs," said George Kutnerian, Co-Founder & CEO of Wellpointe Inc. "Despite the overwhelming need for a new model, senior living continues to be built out rather than up - even in dense urban areas - and quality is treated as incompatible with affordability. Viva rejects that premise and builds upon Wellpointe's mission of democratizing access to quality housing and care for older adults - now through transit-oriented, high-density, community-serving urban social infrastructure. Viva L.A. at Warner Center is the first manifestation of this new urban co-living vision."

"Gensler is proud to be working with Wellpointe to create Viva L.A. at Warner Center," said Eric Stultz, Studio Director and Principal at Gensler. "With Viva, we set out to prove that high-density senior housing can be as thoughtful and humane as it is efficient - a vertical community designed around light, connection and care. This groundbreaking project will redefine what is possible in the world of affordable assisted living. Having the opportunity to shape both Viva L.A. at Warner Center and the neighboring Rams Village lets us think about Warner Center not as a series of separate projects, but as a new urban neighborhood taking form."

Mayor Bass' efforts to rapidly accelerate the building of housing across Los Angeles include:

• Releasing four Missing Middle LA draft ordinances to make it easier to build smaller, more affordable options for homebuyers and renters, like duplexes and accessory dwelling units (ADUs).

• Implementing the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP), the largest local rezoning program in the county, which already has 30,000 units of housing in the pipeline.

• Expanding the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance citywide to convert vacant office buildings and parking lots into housing, which could create more than 43,000 new homes across the city.

• Signing Executive Directive 19 to modernize and streamline how the City reviews and processes building applications, responding directly to the barriers that applicants, developers and contractors have identified as impediments to building in Los Angeles.