Posted on 12/17/2023 7:22:36 PM PST by grundle
the state of California has also become widely known for its severe housing crunch, with affordability being the leading issue that has driven many natives and longtime residents to inland communities and lower-cost states.
According to The Wall Street Journal, California's complex regulations have played a major role in delaying the construction of a 49-unit apartment complex known as Lorena Plaza in the Boyle Heights neighborhood east of downtown Los Angeles.
In 2007, A Community of Friends, a local nonprofit organization, was given land to build a small affordable housing development, but construction on the project only began roughly a year ago.
The project was slowed down by the need for various approvals from politicians and commissions and higher construction costs caused by multiple delays, the Journal reported.
The city wants to build 450,000 new units of housing by 2029, according to The Los Angeles Times.
But the absence of housing remains a significant obstacle for many Angelenos right now. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, in their 2023 report, estimated that roughly 46,000 people in the city are experiencing homelessness on any given right.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a former congresswoman who this month completed her first year in City Hall, said last December that the glacial pace of progress regarding Lorena Plaza was emblematic of policies she sought to reshape as mayor.
"How on earth could we expect to house 40,000 [homeless] people if we continue to do business as usual?" the mayor said at the Lorena Plaza site at the time, per The Journal.
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“Housing the homeless should not be the goal. The truth is most of them would just destroy the properties”
Pruitt-Igoe?
That’s not unusual.. road construction here for a 5 mile stretch is guaranteed income for life. The only thing that seems to change is where they put the orange cones and barrels. I’d be farther ahead with a shovel and wheelbarrow on a 4 day work week.
You can have Open Borders, or you can have Affordable Housing.
You cannot have both.
the way to get more low-cost rentals is to change laws about eviction. if it was easy to evict and then remove bad tenants you would have more private rental for poor people.
I laugh every time I see articles about creating affordable housing in Los Angeles, or anywhere in California. It will NEVER happen.
It took me 3 1/2 years to go through the crap the Building Department mandates and it cost over $300,000. Just to build a 3 bdrm 2 bath house on my property. I will retire in a year and leave this godforsaken State I grew up in and sell everything I have here.
Say what you want about Rand, but she sure had human nature pegged.
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In many ways she sure did.
The city wants to build 450,000 new units of housing by 2029
Think brown outs are bad now wait until then free flash lights to all.
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