With California Lawmakers Back from Recess, Housing Crisis Is in the Crosshairs
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It won’t be an easy task to get the votes necessary to pass some of bigger-ticket legislation, like S.B. 2 and S.B. 3.
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about affordable housing
Community Land Trusts: An Overlooked Model for L.A. Housing Affordability
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Much of California faces a serious housing crisis. For both renters and owners, L.A. housing is among the least affordable in the United States. For working families, the lack of affordable housing can mean unreasonable rents, displacement, and even homelessness. While there are numerous community groups building new affordable housing, new supply is nowhere near […]
Jobs or Housing? Historic South Central Residents Decry Feeling Asked to Choose by Billion Dollar Reef Project
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THE NUMBER ONE THING that representatives from the “creative habitat” known as the Reef felt they had learned from engaging the community, the speaker told the more than 600 town hall attendees this past May 5, was that Historic South Central was “lacking a sense of place.” To give the community that sense of place […]
No-Growth Initiative Opponents, Proponents Square-off at Westside Urban Forum
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The so-called Coalition to Preserve L.A. announced earlier this week that they will push their no-growth ballot initiative back to L.A.’s March 2017 municipal election. Supporters of the initiative, backed by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, claimed they wanted to move the initiative because they feared it would get buried on the November ballot; without any […]
Planning for Mariachi Plaza Begins Again; How it Will Tie in to Other Area Projects Remains Unclear
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A jacuzzi. Yes, Petronila Lozano, community member and volunteer with Union de Vecinos, repeated in Spanish, a jacuzzi with beautiful trees around it. The Metro lot at Mariachi Plaza could be a place where both the elders and the youth of the community could relax and enjoy themselves, she winked, sketching out her ideal vision […]
Want to Slow Displacement? Then Build More Housing, Says Legislative Analyst’s Office
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What will it take to make sure there’s a future for lower- and middle-income people in California? Anyone who has tried to look for a place to live recently knows that question is much more than an abstract policy discussion. Increasingly, the high cost of housing in California is driving the state’s low- and middle-income […]