Action alert: support legalizing shelters in more areas!
- The need for additional shelter beds, interim housing and permanent supportive housing in the City of Los Angeles is a serious and well-documented problem. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s November 2021 Homelessness Statistics by City report provides clear data supporting the need for more shelter beds.
- Please join AHLA in support of a LA City Council motion to allow shelters in a broader range of zoning districts during a declared shelter crisis! Support legalizing shelters in more areas
LA City has to rezone by OCT 2022: HCD found LA’s housing element non-compliant but said the city is close. HCD noted that the adopted Housing Element “addresses most statutory requirements.” but deficiencies regarding the need to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) prevented it from being certified. As a result, LA City may lose millions in state funding if it doesn’t rezone by OCT this year. Read our statement
Forbidden City returns on Sunday, March 20th, 2022: Led by our Education Director Luke Klipp, who is an expert in LA’s housing history, this is an in-person guided walking tour about LA’s housing history and classic Los Angeles apartment types. Apartments of all kinds used to exist throughout Los Angeles, and have been part of our urban fabric since LA’s early days. Forbidden City introduces the audience to several classic Los Angeles apartment types, from lovely bungalow courts to glamorous art deco style apartments. All of them once belonged to our cityscape; today they are a rarity, banished from most of our neighborhoods. Join us to learn about LA’s housing history and how we can open up neighborhoods to apartments today. RSVP now.
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