[31] The Southern California Leadership Network (a program of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce) named him as one of its 30th anniversary "30-in-30" alumni honorees in 2017.
[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] A 2007 report Landres co-authored with sociologist Steven M. Cohen and others linked Jewish Emergent communities to social networking rather than institutional structures.
[31] Landres worked with the White House during the Presidency of Barack Obama on Jewish affairs and issues related to faith-based social enterprise.
[51] However, as a commissioner and as chair while the City of Santa Monica was updating its required Housing Element in response to its Regional Housing Needs Assessment allocation, Landres took positions generally favoring increasing residential density, including in single-family neighborhoods[52][53][54][55][56] Prior to his planning commission appointment, Landres had chaired the City of Santa Monica's Social Services Commission,[32] where he focused on homelessness[57][58][59] and on accounting for social services in land-use planning.
[61] and co-chaired a 2018 bond measure campaign for SMMUSD facilities, which passed despite opposition from homeowners and renters concerned about increased taxes and fees.
[66][67] He serves on the board of directors of the Santa Monica Bay Area Human Relations Council [68] and was a founding organizing committee member of Jews United for Democracy and Justice, formed in response to "rising threats to religious tolerance, equal rights, a free and fair press, human dignity, and long-held norms of decency and civil society.
[77] In November 2020 and April 2021 Landres published two syndicated op-eds calling for reform of California's Brown Act to enable remote participation by the public in local government.