by Mark Vallianatos | May 25, 2020 | Blog
This post is the second in a series: Lessons from a Pandemic. Read the first post here. Housing after the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic It’s too soon to answer these questions. But one factor worth considering is what happened after past pandemics. Just over a century...
by Mark Vallianatos | May 18, 2020 | Blog
This post is the first in a series: Lessons from a Pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic represents, in the words of a California legislator, “a whole new [housing] crisis on top of the one we were already experiencing.” The pandemic has made it harder for many residents to...
by Leonora Camner | May 7, 2020 | Blog
Car traffic is low. The air is crisp and clean, and I’m consumed with guilt. I now fully appreciate how poisonous and harmful the air my family has been living in, the air I’ve been raising my kids in. When I was pregnant, I traveled every day in a long car commute to...
by Alexander Waggoner | Apr 29, 2020 | Blog
For many, Los Angeles is symbolic of success in America: glamor, celebrity, and money. However, for many of the citizens of Los Angeles, daily life involves significant hardship, and one major source of hardship is the high cost of housing. Beyond the over sixty...
by AbundantHousingLA | Apr 1, 2020 | Newsletter, Resource Library
Los Angeles – While Abundant Housing LA applauds Governor Gavin Newsom’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak in California, we join housing advocates across the state in urging the Governor to take further steps to protect renters from evictions. The executive...