While the vote's disappointing, we want to thank officials who stood up for real solutions to our housing crisis - councilmembers Nithya Raman, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Ysabel Jurado, Eunisses Hernandez, and Curren Price, plus LA Controller Kenneth Mejia who spread the word.
The fight isn't over!
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In today's vote, Councilmember Nithya Raman, a pro-housing champion, proposed a compromise motion to fix CHIP by allowing affordable multi-family incentives in some single-family zones, focusing on high-resource areas.
Unfortunately, the Council voted it down.
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It fails to produce housing the state needs to end its top governance problems (housing affordability and homelessness).
It fails to represent the will of most voters (who support fixing these issues but do not participate in the "public engagement" processes).
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The state needs to rezone in a clear and simple way.
The entire RHNA process--years of obscure, interminable public meetings soliciting feedback on technical documents few understand--is a farce.
It simply fails at its promise of delivering a good or effective result.
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LA is California's biggest city.
Its choices have the most impact on the state's housing shortage. It has top-tier resources.
If it cannot complete the state's housing process without violating federal law, let alone addressing its needs, how can we expect 481 smaller cities to?
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Los Angeles rezoning plan won't spur enough new housing, report finds
A new plan to rezone Los Angeles for more growth won't lead to the construction of enough homes to meet its goals, an analysis from researchers at UCLA finds.
Background: to address CA's severe shortage of housing available for people who need it, the state requires each city follow its "RHNA" process to plan where a minimum amount of new housing will go.
LA's plan, "CHIP," falls far short of this minimum. 2/ www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
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LA City Council just voted not to fix its broken housing plan.
This means it:
👉Will continue its housing shortage
👉Against its residents wishes
👉And violate fair housing law
It's now clear California's legislature must act if we are to end our statewide housing crisis.
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