Recent Streetsblog LA posts about affordable housing

More Housing — Especially the Affordable Kind — Is Exactly What the Westside Needs

By Jason Islas | Feb 8, 2016 | 13 Comments

L.A. City Councilmember Mike Bonin has begun championing the redevelopment of an obsolete Metro bus yard in his district into something that the westside of L.A. County is desperately short of: affordable housing. The 3.5 acres of prime Venice land — located at Sunset and Main — is a mere stone’s throw away from the […]

Metro Moves Affordable Housing Projects in Boyle Heights Forward, Returns Grocery Store Project to Drawing Board

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 4, 2015 | 2 Comments

At Thursday’s Metro Board meeting, boardmembers took action on several items pertaining to the future of Metro-owned lots in Boyle Heights. The Board approved motions allowing affordable housing projects at 1st and Soto, Cesar Chavez and Soto, and 1st and Lorena to continue moving forward, while rescinding the agreement with McCormack Baron Salazar regarding their […]

Terms of Art: Boyle Heights Youth Rally against Being Columbused by the New York Times

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 16, 2015 | 14 Comments

Speaking about her new 35,000 square foot gallery space, located in the western industrial edge of Boyle Heights, art dealer Michele Maccarone told the New York Times, “It still has a dangerous quality — I kind of like that. I like that we spent a fortune on security.” It was a line that, to the […]

Mayor Eric Garcetti tried to pacify activists by discussing his efforts to humanize policing just before the South L.A. Town Hall was finally shut down. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

South L.A. Town Hall Ends in Protests but Residents Hope Dialogue with Mayor Is Just Beginning

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 21, 2015 | 35 Comments

Really? A helicopter?? The aircraft swooped in low and fast outside Holman United Methodist Church Monday night as Mayor Eric Garcetti’s first ever South L.A. Town Hall came to an otherwise unceremonious close. It was a little after 8 p.m., and pleas from an exasperated Reverend Kelvin Sauls that those “interested in having a civil […]

Can High-Density Housing Solve Our Regional Housing Crisis? The Answer: It’s Complicated

By Jason Islas | Aug 28, 2015 | 12 Comments

Southern California Public Radio affiliate KPCC, in partnership with the Milken Institute, assembled a panel of experts Wednesday night to answer the question: can high-density housing solve the housing crisis currently facing L.A. County and California? For those who have been following news about the crippling housing supply crisis in our region, it may not […]

What Does the “Failure” of the Ban on Fast-Food Restaurants in South L.A. to Curb Obesity Really Tell Us?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 27, 2015 | 13 Comments

“Yea, everything [is] OK…I hope all is well with you. I’m upset right now & crying because I’m starving. Have no food.” I stared at the message on my phone. I had just checked in with 19-year-old South L.A. resident Shanique* to see how she was. I had interviewed her earlier in the summer and […]

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