LA's housing plans are currently in shambles.

It exposes the city government's hypocrisy - and may lead to state or federal intervention.

A Thread: Background: LA is known for sprawl. Now it has a massive housing crisis: overpriced and overcrowded housing, catastrophic homelessness, etc.

A main cause: 3/4 of its residential land prohibits anything but detached houses with yards (median price $1.2m).

latimes.com/california/sto…

🚨 Major new LA Housing strategy announced 🚨
It's LA's Citywide Housing Incentive Program, or "CHIP."
This thread explains:
👉🏽 What it does
👉🏽 If it'll work
and most importantly
👉🏽👉🏽 How you can help improve it! 👈🏽👈🏽
1/ To address growing housing needs, LA has to enable 250k more new units of housing than it's on track to by 2028.

CHIP builds on programs that allow more apartments in high-income areas near job centers and transit, as long as a % is reserved for low-income residents.

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Recently, a developer submitted a plan to turn the waterfront power plant in Redondo Beach into 2,300 new homes using what’s called the Builder’s Remedy. This is a thread about what a Builder’s Remedy is and why it’s a big deal that California might have it. Background on the project: reason.com/2022/09/09/thi…

🧵If you live in California, you’ve probably heard of Proposition 13.

But what does it do?
How does it affect housing in California?
And should it change?

You can find answers to all these questions here:

1/ Prop 13 was a 1978 ballot measure that put strict limits on property taxes. It capped the maximum property tax rate at 1%, and assesses the property based on its value *at the time of purchase*, not what it’s worth today.

lao.ca.gov/publications/r…

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🚨 Action Alert 🚨

80%.

That's the amount of land zoned for housing in Los Angeles County where apartments are banned. Laws that mandate single-family detached homes as the only legal housing option in most of the County are a form of exclusionary zoning. In some cities, apartment bans are even more widespread. You can use our map to see for yourself how much of your city’s land mandates single-family homes only.

rpubs.com/anthonydedousi…

"Poor cities were given higher goals. On average, they were asked to permit enough new homes to increase their housing stock by about 11% compared to the first year of their current RHNA cycle, while wealthier cities were only asked to add about 5%. "

https://twitter.com/ConsensusLive/status/1376626004291031041

"Those poorer cities are also less likely to be on track to meet their goals. Part of the reason is probably that those cities have fewer resources to help them plan for housing needs. However, looking at the grades by category illuminates another factor."
sgvtribune.com/2021/01/31/rep…

As we grapple with LA's failure to house its people, we want to reaffirm a commitment to equity and fairness in our approach. @CamnerLeonora wrote about why it is important for the #yimby movement to center WHERE to put housing and for WHOM:

abundanthousingla.org/a-yimby-moveme… Abundant Housing LA is building the pro-housing movement for LA. But it’s not enough to just be supportive of housing in general. Achieving housing abundance requires thoughtful approaches that center equity, racial justice, and environmentalism.

abundanthousingla.org/policyagenda/

folks, IMAGINE THIS 😍

The year is 2029. Every Angeleno, including YOU, can afford to live near where they work, families get to remain close to each other, and neighborhoods are walkable and vibrant with businesses & activities. 1/
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abundanthousingla.org/a-dispatch-fro… With lots of new homes near Metro, air quality and commutes are better than ever. 2/

We Still Here (day 15 of 28)

The queen of neo soul, Erykah Badu, was born Erica Abi Wright on February 26, 1971. She was raised by a single mother in #Dallas, #Texas. 1/

#BHM #HERstory #ShareBlackStories #threadstorytime Badu started her training in the arts at age 4 and was a cast member at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters in her youth. By 14, she was freestyling for a local radio station. 2/

We Still Here (day 14 of 28)

Wishing you all a day full of love! Today's entry is a bit long, as we pay tribute to Prince's dazzling legacy, and commemorate the many Black struggles that took place in his hometown #Minneapolis, #Minnesota.

#BHM #ShareBlackStories #ShareTheLove Prince Rogers Nelson was born June 7, 1958. A well-rounded entertainer, Prince was a singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, guitar virtuoso, & professional dancer. His eclectic, genre-bending music & flamboyant and androgynous persona forever imprinted on the world.

Good morning and welcome to the weekend! Day 13 of our collab with artist Greg Edwards (@GregtheGrouch) features Amanda Gorman, who at 22 is the youngest entry of this series. Her story demonstrates the empowerment that comes with having a voice & creative outlet.

#BHM #thread Poet and activist Amanda Gorman was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1998. She grew up with a speech impediment and has an auditory condition making her hypersensitive to sound.

#HerStory

THREAD:

Under state law, LA has to plan for 456,000 more homes by 2029. In October, @Planning4LA will finalize a plan (the “housing element”) explaining how they’ll achieve this ambitious goal.

planning.lacity.org/plans-policies… Of course, *how* we plan for more homes is key. Together with 19 other civic orgs, @AbundantHousing has called for an Equitable Distribution of housing, where *every* neighborhood, particularly high-resource areas, plans for strong housing growth.

abundanthousingla.org/transforming-l…