Transforming L.A. Through the Housing Element

by Anthony Dedousis | Oct 9, 2020 | Blog, Data and Research, RHNA

By this time next year, Los Angeles may be on a path to fixing its housing shortage and becoming a more affordable place to live. That’s because state law requires every city in California to create a strategic plan for achieving a citywide housing growth goal. Under...

The FAIR LA Plan

by Anthony Dedousis | Mar 25, 2020 | Blog, Resource Library, RHNA

Get ready: by the end of the decade, Los Angeles might build over 450,000 new homes. This might surprise many readers. Have YIMBYs hypnotized the L.A. City Council? Not quite. Every eight years, cities are required under state law to update their housing elements, a...

We did it! Over 1.3 million homes coming to SoCal, concentrated in coastal, job-rich cities

by AbundantHousingLA | Nov 9, 2019 | Newsletter, RHNA

 The latest news and events for the Pro Housing Movement. Join | Donate | Volunteer For many months, Abundant Housing LA members and volunteers have been dedicating their time to work on an obscure, technical process called the Regional Housing Needs Assessment...

Open letter to SCAG on why the current proposed methodology violates state law

by Leonora Camner | Oct 11, 2019 | RHNA

Copy of Letter – Click here for PDF   David P. Bonaccorsi LAW OFFICES BERNARD, BALGLEY & BONACCORSI, LLP 3900 NewPark Mall Road, Third Floor Newark, California  94560-5242 Telephone (510) 791-1888 Facsimile (510) 791-8008 October 7, 2019   Kome...

A Better RHNA Methodology

by Leonora Camner | Oct 7, 2019 | RHNA

SCAG has recently posted their latest RHNA methodology on their website, which you can see here.  But this methodology still encourages sprawl through an increased importance of “local input” as a factor. What would a better RHNA methodology look like?...

RHNA – The Best and Worst

by Leonora Camner | Sep 30, 2019 | RHNA

We have a housing crisis and no single city, acting on its own, can fix it. Why don’t we just give each city a housing production target to reach at different income levels and then let them figure it out? Well, that exact process already exists, and it’s called RHNA....