David Wagner reports on business and economy for the LAist and KPCC newsroom.
If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass introduced new limits this week to her administration’s program to streamline affordable housing. The changes will further restrict where low-income apartments can be fast-tracked in the city at a time when rents are rising further out of reach for many residents.
“It's just turning something that was really remarkable into another status quo type tool,” said Jason Ward, an economist and co-director of theLAist reached out to the mayor’s office to ask what prompted the latest round of changes to ED1. Bass spokesperson Clara Karger responded in an email, saying, “Mayor Bass believes that policies should be constantly evaluated and improved upon. That’s what this revision seeks to do.
“A lot of the stuff we were fighting for, we found in these revisions,” Kalban said. “So we really think the mayor stepped up.”
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