Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Neighborhood Integrity Initiative

Broad Coalition Rallies To Oppose “Neighborhood Integrity” Housing Ban

By Joe Linton | Oct 10, 2016 | 4 Comments

At a city parking lot in Lincoln Heights this morning, an unusually broad coalition gathered to speak out against the so-called Neighborhood Integrity Initiative. In formation for some time, the Coalition to Protect L.A. Neighborhoods and Jobs includes business and labor, with housing and homeless advocates, developers, environmentalists, and many others all joined together to oppose […]

No-Growth Initiative Opponents, Proponents Square-off at Westside Urban Forum

By Jason Islas | Mar 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

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 […]

Coalition Grows in Opposition to Proposed No-Growth Ballot Initiative

By Jason Islas | Feb 1, 2016 | 41 Comments

Communities United for Jobs and Housing, a growing coalition of affordable housing developers, community leaders, climate activists, transit advocates, and elected officials, has formed to oppose efforts by no-growth activists to pass a November ballot measure that would severely curtail, among other things, the city’s ability to address Los Angeles’ worsening housing shortage. Nearly 40 […]

Doubling Down on an Unsustainable Future: Looking at L.A.’s “Neighborhood Integrity Initiative”

By Jason Islas | Jan 21, 2016 | 127 Comments

Los Angeles voters may once again have to go to the ballot box this November to determine the future of the city’s urban form. No-growth activists led by AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein are preparing to put an initiative on the ballot this election cycle to severely restrict most future growth throughout the city. […]