Steve Diaz

DHS Housing for Health

“Part of my vision to create racial equity is to position ourselves in leadership roles so that impacted people join and take action.”

Steve Diaz is currently the Deputy Director of LA CAN. Where he overseas LA CAN’s community-building work. Steve originally join LA CAN in 2002 when he was recruited into the LA CAN’s housing preservation campaign as a teenager living in a residential hotel at-risk of conversion. Since that time Steve has worked on numerous Housing Campaigns ranging from local community organizing efforts to improve housing conditions, to city efforts to strengthen tenant protections and national efforts to preserve public housing.