Recent Streetsblog LA posts about affordable housing

The lots at Manchester and Vermont have held the community hostage to blight for 25 years. Vendors have helped give the property some life. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

County Looks to Eminent Domain to Rewrite Future of Vacant Lots at Vermont/Manchester

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 30, 2017 | 7 Comments

The proposed project includes a six-story structure housing 180 affordable units, a public charter boarding school, a career technical education center, neighborhood-serving retail, community spaces, and a transit plaza.

Sun shines through the Watts Towers. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

People’s Plan Helps Shape South and Southeast L.A. Community Plans

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 22, 2017 | 3 Comments

A ten-year community-led planning effort paralleled the city's own process and shaped the final form of the South and Southeast community plans.

A rendering of the proposed project at Expo/Crenshaw looking south along Crenshaw. Source: Metro

Metro Executive Management Cmte. Approves Six-Month ENA for Proposed Expo/Crenshaw Development

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 16, 2017 | 5 Comments

Who will drive the outreach? The question came from Metro Boardmember Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker regarding the proposal for a mixed-use project on two lots at the convergence of the Expo and Crenshaw/LAX Lines in South L.A.

The transformation of Crenshaw at Exposition - the gateway to a historic black neighborhood - apparently also includes the rapture of the entire black population... save one undoubtedly confused person in cargo shorts. Source: Metro

When Your Renderings Suggest the Black Population Has Been Abducted by Aliens, It May Be the Least of Your Problems

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 14, 2017 | 51 Comments

The transformation of Crenshaw at Exposition - the gateway to a historic black neighborhood - apparently also includes the abduction of the entire black population by aliens... save one undoubtedly confused person who appears to be in cargo shorts.

L.A. City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson addressing an August 2017 Affordable Housing Linkage Fee rally. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

L.A. Council Planning Committee Again OKs Affordable Housing Linkage Fee

By Joe Linton | Oct 11, 2017 | 7 Comments

The city's proposed Affrordable Housing Linkage Fee passed another hurdle in its slow journey toward approval

L.A. Planning Committee Approves Controversial Affordable Housing Linkage Fee

By Joe Linton | Aug 23, 2017 | 4 Comments

The L.A. City Council PLUM Committee unanimously approved a proposed new city Affordable Housing Linkage Fee. If approved by council, the fee would generate an estimated $100 million annually for the city's affordable housing trust fund.

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