Take action: More homes without more traffic is possible with AB 2097
- More homes without more traffic is possible by removing costly, wasteful, and harmful minimum parking mandates.
Parking requirements are costly. Each parking space costs more than $50,000 to build, an expense passed down onto renters and families. Parking requirements are wasteful: they take up precious land and reduce the number of homes feasible in a project, which contributes to housing scarcity. Parking requirements are harmful: they encourage car usage while discouraging transit usage, which increases greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, traffic congestion, and traffic collisions, at an enormous cost to society.
Parking requirements especially undermine public investment in affordable housing by mandating high construction costs, reducing the number of affordable homes that can be built, and thus resulting in fewer lower-income households served.
AB 2097 would not prohibit off-street parking from being built. It merely prevents local governments from imposing minimum parking requirements in areas well served by transit, thus providing flexibility based on demand. AB 2097 will be considered by the Assembly Local Government Committee soon, send your support for AB 2097 today!
- Support AB 2097
Help inform voters about candidates’ positions on housing
- The AHLA PAC will be supporting Dulce Vasquez for LA City Council District 9 and Karen Bass for Mayor!
House-burdened and pro-housing voices are chronically underrepresented in elections and public meetings. We will ensure this does not happen this year. By simply informing voters about important elections and meetings in their community, we can significantly increase the presence of pro-housing votes on election day. This means we need to inform as many voters as possible about Dulce and Karen’s candidacy.
Help inform as many voters as possible, chip in for text banking! Give here.
Create Your Neighborhood with James Rojas
- Sign up now for a chance to envision how your community can be better through housing with urban planner, activist, and artist James Rojas!
As cities across Los Angeles County prepare for housing growth in the next eight years, it is important to craft housing plans based on a collective vision supported by the community. A home is not just a home, it’s part of community cultural production, and helps shape a community’s cultural identity. Attend this workshop to explore the role of housing in shaping your community, and together imagine what housing abundance could look like for your neighborhood.
- RSVP today.
Housing updates
- State bills are undergoing hearings with the legislature’s various committees now. Bills are first referred to relevant committees within their house of origin, where they must be approved by committee members, before advancing to a full floor vote. Once passed out of the house of origin, bills head to the other house, where they repeat the process before advancing to a floor vote there.
- 4 LA County cities, including Redondo Beach and Whittier, have brought suit against Senate Bill 9 permitting duplexes and lot splits for single-family zoned parcels.
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