Abundant Housing LA✓ Endorses
2026 Midterm Partner Endorsements
Rex Richardson
Mayor of Long Beach · California
Backed byAbundant Housing LA
What the Guides Said
Abundant Housing LA✓ EndorsesAbout Rex Richardson
As Long Beach's 29th Mayor, Rex Richardson has transformed the city's greatest challenges into unprecedented opportunities, bringing leadership rooted in personal experience with working families' struggles and a proven commitment to expanding opportunity for all residents.
Mayor Richardson's story reflects the American Dream realized through determination and community support. He moved around a lot growing up. His mother was a union welder at General Motors — her own mother had integrated schools in the South. His father served in the Air Force. The family moved when work moved, and stability wasn't something Rex could take for granted. He came to California on a Greyhound bus. He knew what it meant to worry about housing, to stretch a paycheck, to wonder if the next city would be better than the last.
Rex Richardson on Housing and Abundance
“We've brought Long Beach's homeless population down for the first time in a decade, created over 4,000 new jobs, and built the foundation for a thriving future where innovation and opportunity go hand in hand.”
“Rex serves as Chair of the LA County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency, past President of the Southern California Association of Governments, and Advisory Board Member of the U.S.”