Bass put new restrictions on her plan to speed up the approval of affordable housing, taking out properties that are in historic districts, hillsides with high fire risk and other areas.
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s David Zahniser and Dakota Smith, bringing you the latest and the greatest from L.A. city politics and government. When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass launched her reelection bid this week, she made sure to highlight her success in speeding up the approval of new affordable housing.
activists — who are looking to eliminate restrictions on housing production, hence the moniker 'Yes In My Backyard' — were largely disappointed. They argued that ED1 had been effective because of its simplicity. Scott Epstein, director of policy and research for Abundant Housing LA, a pro-housing advocacy group, said the long list of changes to ED1 will make it much more complicated, leaving developers with less flexibility to make their projects financially viable.
s, for example, remain frustrated that Bass excluded single-family neighborhoods from the initiative early in her administration. At the other end of the spectrum, homeowner groups still contend that many ED1 projects are dramatically out of scale with their surroundings. Critics have also complained that dozens of ED1 projects have included zero parking spaces, creating new pressures on street parking.
s, who warn that higher labor costs could make it impossible for many ED1 projects to get built. Members of Abundant Housing LA organized a rally last month to push for ED1 to become permanent. At that event, they faced their own pushback. The rally, held outside City Hall, was disrupted by tenant activists who shouted them down and tore up some of their signs, organizers said.
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