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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

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10.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 765    🔁 142    💬 9    📌 60
"Issue brief from UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies titled A Large Majority of Angelenos Want More Apartments — Even on Single-Family Streets (by Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, 2025). The brief discusses Los Angeles Mayor Bass’s December 16, 2022 executive order streamlining the approval process for 100% affordable housing to 60 days, and notes survey findings from the Los Angeles Quality of Life Index showing that most residents want more multifamily housing in their own neighborhoods."

"Issue brief from UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies titled A Large Majority of Angelenos Want More Apartments — Even on Single-Family Streets (by Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, 2025). The brief discusses Los Angeles Mayor Bass’s December 16, 2022 executive order streamlining the approval process for 100% affordable housing to 60 days, and notes survey findings from the Los Angeles Quality of Life Index showing that most residents want more multifamily housing in their own neighborhoods."

Figure 2: "Map of Los Angeles City Council districts shaded by percent of respondents supporting new apartments on streets with mostly single-family homes. Support is highest in CD1 (87.23%) and CD13 (83.37%), with other high-support districts including CD10 (79.01%) and CD9 (78.51%). Lowest support is in CD2 (47.77%) and CD4 (51.08%). Most districts show majority support above 60%."

Figure 2: "Map of Los Angeles City Council districts shaded by percent of respondents supporting new apartments on streets with mostly single-family homes. Support is highest in CD1 (87.23%) and CD13 (83.37%), with other high-support districts including CD10 (79.01%) and CD9 (78.51%). Lowest support is in CD2 (47.77%) and CD4 (51.08%). Most districts show majority support above 60%."

Figure 4: "Map of Los Angeles City Council districts shaded by percent of respondents supporting new apartments in their own neighborhood. Support is highest in CD9 (76.57%), CD10 (70.67%), and CD14 (69.48%). Lowest support is in CD11 (46.14%) and CD7 (49.11%). Most districts fall between 50% and 65% support, with stronger backing in the central and southern districts."

Figure 4: "Map of Los Angeles City Council districts shaded by percent of respondents supporting new apartments in their own neighborhood. Support is highest in CD9 (76.57%), CD10 (70.67%), and CD14 (69.48%). Lowest support is in CD11 (46.14%) and CD7 (49.11%). Most districts fall between 50% and 65% support, with stronger backing in the central and southern districts."

“86% of LA respondents support building apartments in one or more of a [wide range] of areas. That number isn’t a typo. This level of agreement is unheard of in politics and should be enough of a reason to build more housing immediately.“ — @zacharyst.bsky.social escholarship.org/content/qt4m...

16.08.2025 18:36 — 👍 265    🔁 81    💬 5    📌 4

Thank goodness we have Laura Friedman in Congress leading the charge for transit. LA Subway counter-programming tomorrow afternoon.

20.02.2025 04:02 — 👍 74    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

Elections are fascinating. Orange is the new purple.

28.11.2024 03:13 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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Hi, I’m Brandon.

16.11.2024 15:50 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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