Estuardo Mazariegos
Candidate for City Council Member, Los Angeles, District 9 · Director, Community Organization
Estuardo Mazariegos came to Los Angeles as a child after his family fled political violence in Guatemala. He is a father and has spent nearly two decades as a community organizer in South Los Angeles. He serves as co-director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), a grassroots organization focused on housing rights and economic justice for low-income communities. He says he helped lead organizing efforts behind the city's Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance, the Resident Protection Ordinance, and the passage of Measure ULA, a tax on high-value property sales that funds affordable housing and homelessness prevention. His campaign says it does not accept money from corporate PACs, real estate developers, or police associations.
Positions in brief
Mazariegos's platform centers on stronger tenant protections and community-owned housing, a public-health approach to public safety instead of expanded policing, and community-controlled economic development.
Mazariegos says families in the district are being pushed out by rent hikes, no-fault evictions, and unsafe conditions created by landlords exploiting a broken system, and he supports community land trusts and limited-equity cooperatives to keep housing affordable and locally controlled. He notes the district has one of the highest unhoused populations in the city and says that is not an accident, pointing to years of disinvestment. On public safety, he wants a proactive, preventive approach built around community-based violence prevention, youth programs, and mental-health services rather than expanding the police department, saying many residents don't feel served by the LAPD as it is. On the economy, he wants development that centers existing residents and businesses rather than outside corporations, including support for a dedicated small-business office, protections for commercial tenants and street vendors, and worker-owned enterprises; he has also proposed a surcharge on tickets to sporting and entertainment events in the district to help fund neighborhood amenities. He says South Central has some of the most dangerous streets and longest commutes in the city and wants that addressed. On immigration, he supports guaranteed legal representation and due process for all residents regardless of immigration status.
On the issues
- Housing & Homelessness
Supports stronger tenant protections and community-controlled housing models like land trusts and limited-equity cooperatives to prevent displacement.
“Families in South Central are being pushed out of the neighborhoods they built - rent hikes, no-fault evictions, unsafe conditions”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Says the district's high level of homelessness reflects years of disinvestment rather than chance, and wants that addressed directly.
“Council District 9 has the second-highest number of unhoused residents in the city. This is not by accident.”
Source → - Economy & Jobs
Wants economic development that centers existing residents and local businesses rather than outside corporations.
“We need economic development that centers our communities, not corporations.”
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Supports a preventive, public-health approach to safety built around violence prevention, youth programs, and mental-health services rather than expanding the police department.
“a proactive, preventive approach to public safety that invests in what actually keeps communities stable”
Source → - Infrastructure & Transportation
Wants to address dangerous streets and long commute times in the district.
“South Central has some of the most dangerous streets and longest commutes in Los Angeles.”
Source → - Immigration & Border
Supports guaranteed legal representation and due process for all residents regardless of immigration status.
“legal representation and due process for all residents, regardless of immigration status”
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Proposes a surcharge on tickets to sporting and entertainment events in the district to fund neighborhood amenities.
“a surcharge on tickets to sporting and entertainment events in the district to pay for amenities”
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