Abundant Housing LA✓ Endorses
2026 Midterm Partner Endorsements
Henry Mantel
Los Angeles City Council District 5 · California
Backed byAbundant Housing LA
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About Henry Mantel
I’m Henry Mantel, a Tenants’ Rights Attorney, Park La Brea resident, and former Mid-City West Neighborhood Councilmember. I was raised here in Los Angeles and even though I’ve lived in several other cities in my life, I’ve always come back to LA. I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to build a brighter future through legal advocacy, non-profit work, and campaigning. Now I’m running for Los Angeles City Council District 5 to solve LA’s housing crisis for good.
CD5 has been my home for most of my life. When my family first moved out here from New York City in 1994, I lived in Hancock Park and attended 3rd Street Elementary School and John Burroughs Middle School before transferring to Harvard-Westlake in 7th Grade. I was Bar Mitzvahed and confirmed at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and went to Brandeis University after graduating high school in 2010. While at Brandeis, I studied abroad in Kyoto, Japan and took my first steps into politics as a field organizer for a Democrat running for Congress outside of Boston.
From henrymantelforla.com
Henry Mantel on Housing and Abundance
“In order to build a brighter future for LA, we must build more housing.”
“For too long, Los Angeles has faced a housing crisis that has forced our neighbors from their homes and robbed working people of opportunities for economic security.”
“Now it’s 2025, I work for a private firm suing landlords for slum housing conditions, and the housing crisis has only gotten worse.”