2024 Impact Report
A Home for Every One
LA Family Housing helps people transition out of homelessness and poverty through a continuum of housing enriched with supportive services.
Your generosity makes our mission possible.
2024 By The Numbers
Letter from our CEO and Board Chair
Dear Friends,
LA Family Housing welcomes you to the first all-digital version of our Impact Report—we hope you enjoy this new format. We’re proud to share our 2024 accomplishments highlighted throughout this report, including connecting over 17,000 people with services and housing – more than any other year in LAFH history. Over 4,700 of those people are permanently housed in LAFH-owned buildings, and of the roughly 10,000 people in our homeless programs, we helped over 3,200 secure permanent homes, diverting thousands more from falling into homelessness to begin with.
With your support, LAFH is proud to be one of the leading homeless service agencies in Los Angeles County. We know what it takes to end homelessness: helping more people stay in their homes, increasing access to housing and services for those who have fallen into homelessness, and building more affordable housing in our region. As an organization, we lead with optimism despite the various challenges that contribute to homelessness – most notably an extreme lack of affordable and available housing, stagnant wages, long-standing systemic racism and inequalities, and safety net failures. Thus, our work must progress! 
In 2024 we continued our real estate development and advocated for creating more efficient systems to build housing. We launched LAFHBuilds, an affiliate nonprofit whose focus is affordable housing development. In partnership with LAFHBuilds, we opened 152 new units in 2024, and have six new projects in our development pipeline which will create 411 new permanent homes by 2026. 
There is so much good news to report back on. Lives have changed because of your support. You stepped in when people needed help. I hope you feel inspired when reviewing our online 2024 impact report.  
We are deeply appreciative of our dedicated Board of Directors, brilliant colleagues, and YOU—our incredible community of supporters. With you by our side, LA Family Housing will continue serving Angelenos experiencing homelessness with the same determination, innovation, and passion we have shown for over four decades. We look forward to creating a brighter future together!
With gratitude,
Stephanie Klasky-Gamer
President and CEO
Gillian Wright
Board Chair
In 2024, LA Family Housing celebrated major events and milestones.
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We Built More Homes
We broke ground on The Pano, a 91-unit development and the first Project Homekey site in the City of Los Angeles to begin conversion to Permanent Supportive Housing.
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We Kept More People From Falling Into Homelessness
Through our diversion services, we helped 737 households resolve their housing crises without having to enter the homeless system.
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We Expanded our Whole Person Care Model
We built out our mental health, substance abuse, and harm reduction capabilities at our interim and permanent supportive housing sites, addressing these interconnected aspects of care to achieve better housing outcomes.
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We Launched LAFHBUILDS
Our sister agency, LAFHBUILDS, opened its doors to develop, manage, and operate our long-term real estate assets.
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We Focused on Staff Wellness
Through our Key to Wellness program, we began offering enhanced support to our frontline staff to help them manage their stress, providing fun and healthy activities including access to meditations, fitness competitions, and an on-site wellness retreat.
2025 Board of Directors
Stephanie Klasky-Gamer
President and CEO
Chair: Gillian Wright
Southern California Gas Company
Vice Chair: Debbie Burkart
National Equity Fund
Treasurer: Brian Soloway
Raymond James
Secretary: Ima Nsien
Squire Patton Boggs
Immediate Past Chair: Gregg Sherkin
Wells Fargo
Wayne Brander
U.S. Bank
Michele Breslauer
Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles
Karen Brodkin
William Morris Endeavor
Zeeda Daniele
Rebuilding Together of the City of Angels
Brie Dorfman
Amazon AWS
Garrett Gin
Bank of America
Daniel M. Howard, CPA
Citrin Cooperman
Nedda Ismaili
City National Bank
Marijane Kantzabedian
Miller Kaplan
Jacob Lipa
Lipa Consulting
Gary Meisel
Private Investor
Michelle Missaghieh
Temple Israel of Hollywood
Jonathan Ruiz
The Agency
Adam Waldman
The Refinery
Ross E. Winn, Esq.
Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP
LIFETIME DIRECTORS
Audrey Irmas
Matthew Irmas
Robert J. Irmas (1951-2015)
Sydney M. Irmas (1925-1996)
Trudy Louis (1914-2004)
Rev. John Simmons (1917-2013)
