Los Angeles has spent years naming its housing and homelessness crisis. The data has been cited, the urgency declared, the grief documented. The 11th Annual AIA|LA Design For Dignity Conference arrives at a different moment — one of hard-won clarity. This year, we are done describing the emergency. We are here to build the solution.

Themed “From Crisis to Construction: Building a City of Yes,” the 2026 conference is structured around a single, urgent argument: that policy, capital, and design have operated in isolation for too long — and that the only path forward is what we are calling “The Great Realignment.” That is the deliberate, disciplined integration of those three forces into a single operational fabric, applied at every scale from the building site to the City Charter.

Across two half-day sessions — May 29 and June 5 — eight panels will bring together architects, developers, housing advocates, city officials, financiers, and community residents to do what Design for Dignity has always done best: move the conversation from aspiration to action, and from action to advocacy.