Endorsement: California has money for homeless housing. Vote yes on Proposition LH so L.A. can use it
2 years, 3 months ago

Endorsement: California has money for homeless housing. Vote yes on Proposition LH so L.A. can use it

LA Times  

Proposition LH on the Nov. 8 Los Angeles ballot shouldn’t be necessary. But because an archaic and racist provision to block public housing remains in the California Constitution, L.A. could miss out on funding available to build homeless and affordable housing without passage of this procedural measure. Without a new authorization from Proposition LH, large swaths of the city — including downtown, the Eastside, Hollywood, and parts of Central and South L.A. — will soon hit the cap, meaning the city and state could no longer approve publicly funded affordable housing projects in those areas. Eventually, developers and cities found ways to get around the constraints of Article 34, including asking voters to adopt broad measures such as Proposition LH authorizing an overall number of new public housing units. Until then, Los Angeles voters can continue the city’s progress toward easing the homelessness and affordable housing crisis by voting yes on Proposition LH.

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L.A. City Council votes to boost housing development, while leaving out single-family-home zones
2 weeks ago

L.A. City Council votes to boost housing development, while leaving out single-family-home zones

LA Times  

An apartment building under construction in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2020. The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to boost housing development in existing high-density residential neighborhoods and along commercial corridors, while leaving single-family zones largely untouched. Last month, a city council committee approved a plan that allowed for more building in existing high-density residential neighborhoods …

L.A. City Council committee approves sweeping housing rezoning plan
1 month ago

L.A. City Council committee approves sweeping housing rezoning plan

LA Times  

A key Los Angeles city council committee signed off on a sweeping rezoning plan Tuesday that would focus new market rate and affordable housing on commercial corridors and in existing dense residential neighborhoods. “By opening up some of these neighborhoods — to some new housing — we would actually be making steps towards undoing the city’s patterns of segregation that …

Los Angeles rezoning plan won’t spur enough new housing, report finds
1 month ago

Los Angeles rezoning plan won’t spur enough new housing, report finds

LA Times  

Los Angeles is on the verge of redrafting blueprints for its neighborhoods to accommodate more than 250,000 new homes. A soon-to-be-voted-on plan to rezone the city of Los Angeles will fall far short of its homebuilding goal, according to a new analysis from UCLA researchers. But when analyzing the likelihood of what developers would actually build, researchers found the number …

Proposition 5 ballot measure to make it easier to fund affordable housing fails
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Proposition 5 ballot measure to make it easier to fund affordable housing fails

LA Times  

Construction on Casa Sueños, an affordable housing complex in Oakland, in 2023. A ballot measure that would have made it easier to finance affordable housing and other public projects in California has failed. Results from prior elections showed dozens of local bond measures that exceeded 55% support but failed to reach the required two-thirds majority, meaning that Proposition 5 could …

Election results for California’s statewide propositions
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54 years, 11 months ago

Election results for California’s statewide propositions

LA Times  

twitter facebook envelope angle-double-right angle-down angle-up long-arrow-right On Nov. 5, California voters will be asked whether they support raising the minimum wage, imposing harsher penalties for certain crimes, banning forced prison labor, expanding rent control and much more. Some measures are amendments to the California Constitution — a “yes” on Proposition 3 would codify the right to same-sex marriage, while …

Prop. 33 Could See Big Changes in Berkeley's Rent Control
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Prop. 33 Could See Big Changes in Berkeley's Rent Control

Associated Press  

Proposition 33, a ballot measure in California, could have a significant impact on housing regulations in several cities. If passed, the measure would allow cities to impose stricter rent control measures on single-family homes and apartments, potentially leading to higher housing costs for residents. However, it is important to note that the measure would not apply to existing exemptions for …

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies
2 months, 1 week ago

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies

LA Times  

City of Los Angeles officials are finally confronting a question that has seemed too big to answer: How much would it actually cost to get every person living on the street today indoors and make sure that no one languished there for years again? “In other ways, it doesn’t seem that eye-popping to me for the scale of the problem.” …

Track the money for Prop 33: Contributions for and against California’s ballot measure on rent control
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Track the money for Prop 33: Contributions for and against California’s ballot measure on rent control

LA Times  

Propositon 33 would let cities and counties enact rent control by repealing the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Supporters say repealing the ban on localities capping rent on vacant units, single-family homes and apartments built more recently will give local governments tools to ease the affordability crisis for their residents. Overall fundraising Cumulative contributions Biggest supporters The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a …

Will the Grants Pass ruling on homelessness spur smaller cities to shoo people into L.A.?
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Will the Grants Pass ruling on homelessness spur smaller cities to shoo people into L.A.?

LA Times  

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on anti-camping laws last month, Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo was one of the local political leaders who welcomed it. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 8th Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment clause prohibits criminal penalties for “sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain …

2024 California propositions voter guide: minimum wage, crime, marriage, healthcare, rent and more
5 months, 2 weeks ago

2024 California propositions voter guide: minimum wage, crime, marriage, healthcare, rent and more

LA Times  

In addition to a precarious presidential election and high-stakes U.S House races, California voters in November will also weigh in on a slew of statewide ballot measures that could significantly shape policy and affect the lives of millions of residents. Politics Election results for California’s statewide propositions Latest vote counts for Prop 32 raising minimum wage, Prop 36 addressing crime, …

California voters pass measure pushed by governor to tackle homelessness crisis in razor-thin win
9 months ago

California voters pass measure pushed by governor to tackle homelessness crisis in razor-thin win

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering 2-to-1 in California, and the borderline vote — coming more than two weeks after election day — signaled …

California voters pass Proposition 1 to tackle the state's homelessness crisis
9 months ago

California voters pass Proposition 1 to tackle the state's homelessness crisis

NPR  

California voters pass Proposition 1 to tackle the state's homelessness crisis Enlarge this image toggle caption Damian Dovarganes/AP Damian Dovarganes/AP SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the state's homelessness crisis, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Democrats outnumber Republicans by …

Opinion: Californians narrowly passed Proposition 1. Can the state ensure the measure will work?
9 months ago

Opinion: Californians narrowly passed Proposition 1. Can the state ensure the measure will work?

LA Times  

In a contest so close that it took more than two weeks to call the race, Californians narrowly passed Proposition 1, a $6.4-billion bond measure and reallocation of existing funds to address mental health and homelessness in the state. Proponents of Proposition 1 say it will create direly needed treatment facilities and housing that can also address the state’s addiction …

Californians Split On Ballot Measure To Tackle Homelessness Crisis
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Californians Split On Ballot Measure To Tackle Homelessness Crisis

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters were split in early returns over a statewide ballot measure touted by Gov. The Democratic governor says the proposition is needed to address the state’s homelessness crisis by boosting investments in housing and substance use programs, but social providers worry it would threaten programs that are keeping people from becoming homeless in …

Your guide to California’s Assembly District 52 race: Northeastern Los Angeles County
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Your guide to California’s Assembly District 52 race: Northeastern Los Angeles County

LA Times  

California has spent billions of dollars to alleviate homelessness, yet more than 100,000 people sleep on the street and a majority of Californians view homelessness as a big problem in their part of the state. “We need to do an audit of expenditures, redistribute funding to proven groups/solutions, and give CARE Court a chance,” he said, referring to California’s new …

Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can’t afford to live in L.A. anymore
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can’t afford to live in L.A. anymore

LA Times  

Efforts to house people, which include hundreds of millions of dollars spent on shelter, permanent housing and outreach, have failed to stem the growth of street encampments in Los Angeles. But this time, because of the double whammy of the housing affordability crisis in Los Angeles and the lack of housing security, my family isn’t looking for another place here …

Letters to the Editor: This housing project isn’t ‘down the street.’ It’s right next to single-family homes
1 year, 1 month ago

Letters to the Editor: This housing project isn’t ‘down the street.’ It’s right next to single-family homes

LA Times  

A proposed 33-bed interim homelessness shelter at the site of a city parking lot on Midvale Avenue in West L.A. has drawn backlash from housed residents nearby. To the editor: Your editorial on the local opposition to a temporary housing project for homeless people in a West L.A. residential neighborhood failed to include any objective data or arguments on why …

California has so many new housing laws. Now let's put them to use
1 year, 2 months ago

California has so many new housing laws. Now let's put them to use

LA Times  

Could 2023 be the sleeper year for solving California’s housing crisis? California’s housing shortage was created over decades by a panoply of state and local regulations, some designed to slow growth and home construction. Bills signed into law by Newsom target key housing reforms, including making it easier to convert existing commercial or industrial buildings into housing, rethinking staircase requirements …

A lesson on California housing from the billionaires planning a new city
1 year, 3 months ago

A lesson on California housing from the billionaires planning a new city

LA Times  

A cadre of Silicon Valley elites is drawing fierce criticism from local residents and environmentalists for planning a new city on the outskirts of the Bay Area, a project dubbed “California Forever.” But the effort should be applauded for revealing a truth about California’s failed housing policies. Yet the state’s supposedly pro-development new housing laws have yet to produce more …

California lawmakers vote to fast-track low-income housing on churches’ lands
1 year, 3 months ago

California lawmakers vote to fast-track low-income housing on churches’ lands

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers are debating nearly 1,000 bills during the hectic final two weeks of the Legislative session. Here’s action taken by the California Legislature Thursday: AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON CHURCHES’ LANDS Religious institutions and nonprofit colleges in California could soon turn their parking lots and other properties into low-income housing to help combat the ongoing homeless crisis, lawmakers …

Opinion: How L.A. can build more housing without looking like New York
1 year, 3 months ago

Opinion: How L.A. can build more housing without looking like New York

LA Times  

With the typical cost of a home in Los Angeles soon topping $1 million, and the state’s median rent approaching $3,000, there’s a sense of doom around how unaffordable California has become. Los Angeles is geographically vast — nearly twice the size of Chicago and significantly larger than New York City, with much lower population density than those two cities. …

A California housing law led to thousands of new homes, report says. Why that’s not enough
1 year, 4 months ago

A California housing law led to thousands of new homes, report says. Why that’s not enough

LA Times  

Then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and other officials participate in a 2021 groundbreaking ceremony for a housing development at 11010 Santa Monica Blvd. “We see SB 35 working really well when it comes to producing affordable housing,” said Ryan Finnigan, one of the report’s authors. That’s likely because affordable housing projects frequently come with public funding, which require labor standards …

Is there a market solution to L.A. homeless housing?
1 year, 5 months ago

Is there a market solution to L.A. homeless housing?

LA Times  

Kelvin Calloway, second from left, at a permanent supportive housing complex under construction on the former parking lot of Bethel AME Church in Los Angeles. What Calloway had was $11.7 million in private sector capital that would allow Bethel AME Church to build 53 permanent housing units for homeless people on its property at 79th Street and Western Avenue. “It’s …

Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in L.A. County, 10% in the city
1 year, 5 months ago

Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in L.A. County, 10% in the city

LA Times  

Nathaniel Prenters, 44, gathers his belongings before an L.A. sanitation crew arrives at an encampment in the 200 block of South Venice Boulevard. Homelessness continues to rise dramatically, increasing by 9% in Los Angeles County and 10% in the city of Los Angeles last year, a stark illustration of the challenges faced by officials trying to reduce the number of …

Editorial: If California cities want homeless funding, they better stop blocking housing
1 year, 8 months ago

Editorial: If California cities want homeless funding, they better stop blocking housing

LA Times  

The Dolores Huerta apartments, a 40-unit permanent supportive housing complex, along the 5200 block of South Figueroa Street on Oct. 10, 2022, in Los Angeles. Last week, city and county officials from across the state rallied in Sacramento to demand $3 billion in annual state funding to ease homelessness and build affordable housing. The homelessness crisis in California is a …

Opinion: California housing development remains abysmal despite reforms. Here’s what’s missing
1 year, 10 months ago

Opinion: California housing development remains abysmal despite reforms. Here’s what’s missing

LA Times  

The median Los Angeles home sold for $849,000 last year, according to the National Assn. Los Angeles and other California metropolises need abundant housing to become affordable, and they can get it only by empowering private developers to build significant projects. Accordingly, in the 1950s and ’60s, Los Angeles’ housing stock grew at a healthy rate of 2.2% a year, …

Op-Ed: How do we keep L.A.’s housing costs affordable? Build more homes
1 year, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: How do we keep L.A.’s housing costs affordable? Build more homes

LA Times  

Southern California has several housing crises. Let’s hope that Bass will provide more specifics about how she intends to address the long-term problems with our housing and land-use policies that continue to make rents — and thus homelessness — rise. Unfortunately, what many residents know best about the supportive housing built or in production through Proposition HHH is that it …

California churches, nonprofit colleges could build homes on their land with proposed law
2 years ago

California churches, nonprofit colleges could build homes on their land with proposed law

LA Times  

Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, shown in 2019, has introduced a bill to allow California nonprofit colleges and faith organizations to build affordable apartment buildings on their land. California nonprofit colleges and faith organizations such as churches, mosques and synagogues would be able to build affordable homes on their land under a bill introduced Tuesday to help alleviate the state’s …

Editorial: Californians say ‘yes’ to housing measures. Mostly
2 years, 1 month ago

Editorial: Californians say ‘yes’ to housing measures. Mostly

LA Times  

Forget about the red wave or the blue wave. Up and down the state, voters largely backed pro-housing ballot measures, including taxes and bonds to build affordable housing, and rejected several measures aimed at making it harder to build. Gavin Newsom have passed ambitious laws to spur housing construction and after many communities have passed earlier tax measures to accelerate …

L.A. voters weigh tax measures on property transfers and parks
2 years, 1 month ago

L.A. voters weigh tax measures on property transfers and parks

LA Times  

A ballot measure that would fund affordable housing and homelessness prevention policies in Los Angeles by taxing property sales exceeding $5 million led in initial returns Tuesday night. Neither mayoral candidates Karen Bass nor Rick Caruso supported the tax, which is backed by labor unions, homeless service providers, nonprofit affordable housing builders and others. The measure would authorize a new …

California voters to decide on repeal of anti-public housing measure in 2024
2 years, 3 months ago

California voters to decide on repeal of anti-public housing measure in 2024

LA Times  

New construction rises near old and dilapidated units of the Jordan Downs housing project in the Watts district of Los Angeles in 2019. Nearly 75 years after amending the state Constitution to make it harder to build public housing, California voters will have a chance to repeal the provision on the 2024 ballot. The measure will ask voters to do …

Editorial: Stop stalling, legislators. Pass a bill to create an affordable housing agency in L.A. County
2 years, 3 months ago

Editorial: Stop stalling, legislators. Pass a bill to create an affordable housing agency in L.A. County

LA Times  

It’s a familiar lament: There is not enough affordable housing in Los Angeles. One glimmer of hope is an enterprising state bill, Senate Bill 679, which would create the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency to build and preserve affordable housing and offer struggling renters emergency rental assistance and access to legal counsel for disputes with landlords. Among the …

Op-Ed: Seize the downturn: Why California should leverage a recession to build affordable housing
2 years, 3 months ago

Op-Ed: Seize the downturn: Why California should leverage a recession to build affordable housing

LA Times  

For months, U.S. economists have been warning that a recession is looming, and some are saying we may already be in one. But this potential downturn could be put to a positive use — if California gets ready to leverage an economic slump to build the affordable housing the state desperately needs. In many ways, our current housing crisis stems …

Second Opinion: What can Houston teach L.A. about solving homelessness?
2 years, 10 months ago

Second Opinion: What can Houston teach L.A. about solving homelessness?

LA Times  

The struggle to solve homelessness is getting harder nearly everywhere. If that good news seems too removed from the particular woes of West Coast mega-cities, note that while homelessness in Los Angeles County was doubling over the last decade, it was significantly dropping in Long Beach — in the same crazed Southern California housing market and same unequal local economy. …

Tax proposed on L.A. property sales over $5 million to fund homeless housing
3 years ago

Tax proposed on L.A. property sales over $5 million to fund homeless housing

LA Times  

In an ambitious effort to address the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, a coalition of housing advocates, labor unions and progressive activist groups plans to file paperwork Thursday for a ballot measure that would increase taxes on real estate transactions in the city to fund permanent housing for homeless people and those at risk of ending up on the street. …

L.A. voters back a right to shelter, but are wary of taxes to pay for it, new poll finds
3 years ago

L.A. voters back a right to shelter, but are wary of taxes to pay for it, new poll finds

LA Times  

Los Angeles County voters broadly support a legal right to shelter for all but offer tepid backing for new taxes that might pay for it, a new poll finds. The new poll, conducted by the Los Angeles Business Council Institute in cooperation with The Times, found that a significant majority of voters, 58%, said they believed the region can solve …

Editorial: Los Angeles will soon have a plan to start solving its housing crisis
3 years, 2 months ago

Editorial: Los Angeles will soon have a plan to start solving its housing crisis

LA Times  

It’s possible that 2021 will be the year that California begins to end the state’s housing crisis. The city’s proposed Housing Element is honest, ambitious and has the potential to make L.A. a more equitable and affordable city. As part of the Housing Element, the city must identify properties that could be developed for 455,000 new units of housing, including …

L.A. sets goal of 25,000 new housing units for homeless people
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. sets goal of 25,000 new housing units for homeless people

LA Times  

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved a goal of building 25,000 new housing units for the city’s homeless population. Facing an acute housing crisis and rising public anger over tents in public spaces, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved an ambitious goal of building 25,000 units of new housing for homeless people by 2025. Housing & …

Editorial: To solve homelessness, California should declare a right to housing
3 years, 6 months ago

Editorial: To solve homelessness, California should declare a right to housing

LA Times  

It may not be easy to set up, but a right to housing should be essential in Los Angeles. A right to housing won’t completely alleviate the need for temporary shelter for homeless people. In fact, a right to shelter would siphon off money, time and energy all better spent creating and preserving housing for poor people, including homeless individuals. …

Editorial: Are L.A. leaders serious about homeless housing?
3 years, 7 months ago

Editorial: Are L.A. leaders serious about homeless housing?

LA Times  

The building at 10243 N. Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Chatsworth is currently an automotive sales lot and garages but is the planned site for a 55-unit homeless housing development. On the same day that U.S. District Judge David O. Carter issued an order lambasting L.A.’s political leaders for failing to treat homelessness like the humanitarian crisis it is, Councilman John …

Editorial: L.A. can begin to solve its affordable housing crisis in 2021
3 years, 9 months ago

Editorial: L.A. can begin to solve its affordable housing crisis in 2021

LA Times  

Los Angeles leaders like to tout their progressive credentials, but when it comes to housing and land use, the city is stuck in the past — clinging to development patterns born out of racist housing policies from the last century that perpetuate segregation and inequality today. By October, L.A. has to complete a new Housing Element — a state-mandated plan …

Editorial: Here’s one reason California isn’t building enough affordable housing: bureaucracy
4 years, 1 month ago

Editorial: Here’s one reason California isn’t building enough affordable housing: bureaucracy

LA Times  

Developer Ginger Hitzke, president of of Hitzke Development Corp., in front of her affordable housing development, Autumn Terrace in San Marcos, Calif. Hitzke has been trying to get a 10-unit affordable housing project built by the beach in Solana Beach for the last 10 years and has yet to break ground. No wonder the state is struggling to build enough …

Endorsement: Yes on Prop. 21. California has a housing crisis and cities should be able to protect tenants
4 years, 3 months ago

Endorsement: Yes on Prop. 21. California has a housing crisis and cities should be able to protect tenants

LA Times  

Proposition 21 may feel like deja vu. But a state law, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act of 1995, restricts cities’ ability to enact or expand rent control programs to address their local conditions. Proposition 21 would allow cities to impose rent control on single-family houses or condos — if an individual owns more than two homes. More than a dozen …

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