Housing Headlines April 4, 2023
It was a fairly slow week in housing news. The LA Times had a cute profile of a Chilean- and Ukrainian-American couple who built a pair of ADUs for their aging parents, an update on the Skid Row Housing Trust going bust, and a piece on how higher mortgage interest...
Housing Headlines March 28, 203
Here in LA, a new USC study tracked the pollution impacts of driving, finding that Angelenos who drive less are exposed to more pollution. The Times ran an editorial on Mayor Bass’ homelessness record and an op ed in favor of AB 68, the AHLA-endorsed policy to stop...
Press Release: AB 1335 Passes Out of Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2023 Contact: Max Dubler / maxdubler@abundanthousingla.org Abundant Housing Bill to Align Regional Housing And Transportation Planning Moves Out Of Committee The bill will ensure housing and transportation plans’ population targets...
Abundant Housing Endorses AB 1287
Today, Abundant Housing LA endorsed AB 1287, which strengthens the state density bonus law by allowing additional bonus density and zoning concessions for projects that incorporate certain percentages of homes affordable to moderate income households and would ensure...
AHLA Endorses Asm. Lee’s Single-Stair Reform Bill
Abundant Housing LA is proud to endorse AB 835, Assemblymember Lee’s single-stair building reform bill. Currently the California Building Code requires apartment buildings over three stories in height to have two exit stairways. While intended to promote safety and...
Housing Headlines February 28, 2023
Every week, we round up the biggest housing news for the AHLA newsletter (subscribe here) and share them to the blog. The biggest news here in California was the Superior Court’s ruling that UC Berkeley had failed to sufficiently analyze potential noise impacts of the...
Housing Headlines: February 23, 2023
Every week, we round up the week’s biggest housing news from around the city, state, and country for the Abundant Housing LA blog. Locally, Huntington Beach continued its long tradition of being loud and wrong about state housing law, this time by challenging their...
Abundant Housing LA Releases Housing Element Quality Map
LOS ANGELES, CA—Today, Abundant Housing LA is releasing a map of housing element quality in Los Angeles County. The map, which scores cities based on our assessment of their housing element, HCD certification, past performance with housing production, and the...
Housing Headlines February 14, 2023
Every week, we round up the week’s biggest housing news for the Abundant Housing LA newsletter. The LA Times documented the “financial implosion” of the Skid Row Housing Trust, Mayor Bass’ effort to use vacant city-owned properties for housing, Utah Governor Spencer...
SB 423 Would Be A Very Big Deal
Today, Scott Wiener made news by introducing SB 423, which extends and strengthens his landmark 2018 housing streamlining law law SB 35. This post is about what SB 35 does and why SB 423 matters. Most people think that building housing is pretty straightforward:...
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