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LA Yimby

@layimby

We cannot fix LA's housing crisis without building more housing (a lot more).

 Los Angeles, CA
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The real upzoning is the friends we made along the way
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And there are 1,384,000 households in LA City. By this count, 96.5% of them do not live in an AH unit. Income-restricted housing is awesome. But we cannot expect it to be the answer to LA's housing crisis.
Kenneth Mejia, CPA (@kennethmejiaLA) profile pictureKenneth Mejia, CPA@kennethmejiaLA24 Jun 2021
City of LA Housing Transparency 🏡 -There are about 48,000 affordable housing (AH) units -About 1,264 AH units are at risk of losing their AH covenants each year -About 540 new AH units are completed each year -About 10,000 tenant complaints are processed each year by HCID
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Seriously, how do these people think affordable housing gets built? It just magically materializes?
Urban Land Rent🚰 (@UrbanLandRent) profile pictureUrban Land Rent🚰@UrbanLandRent24 Jun 2021
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"Affordable housing can't be left to developers" another caller said. Says an affordable housing overlay won't build affordable housing 🤔 Says it'll bring in people who will be resented by their neighbors.
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This! I've been talking about this forever! Attn @Planning4LA: $161 will still allow for tons of frivolous appeals that do nothing but waste time and $
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"value capture" is pure distilled LA planner brain
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Could @MitchOFarrell have credibly committed to closing Echo Park at a future date? Like, just pick a date/time (eg once pandemic is mostly over), broadcast it widely, and allow ppl to plan accordingly?
Ben Oreskes (@boreskes) profile pictureBen Oreskes@boreskes25 Mar 2021
The @latimes editorial board weights in: "The lack of transparency, particularly on the part of @MitchOFarrell, has only made this situation more charged. Everyone — tent dwellers, advocates and residents — should know when the park is about be closed." latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
Editorial: If L.A. wants homeless people out of Echo Park Lake, then give them housing

Editorial: If L.A. wants homeless people out of Echo Park Lake, then give them housing

The city should move no one until everyone has been offered interim housing.

latimes.com
Meanwhile, back in Los Feliz the fearmongering continues.:
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Anyone wanna guess who's behind this beauty?
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Don't want to feed the trolls but... Hell yeah I want to upzone rich West LA neighborhoods! I've been talking about this for years!
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This line of attack on yimby is both amusing and depressing, since it's both false (I'm just a guy on twitter) and the logic collapses upon 5 minutes of thinking about who benefits from more abundant housing.
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We don't have a housing crisis, we have a HOUSING CRISIS.
nohousingcrisis (@nohousingcrisis) profile picturenohousingcrisis@nohousingcrisis6 Mar 2021
We don't have a housing crisis, we have a delay crisis.
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1.3 million new homes in Southern California, now required by law!
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This, but no one's "giving" any money to developers. It's just allowing them to build stuff we want & need.
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Hey here's an idea: let's end single family zoning in LA as well
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Let's do this in LA!
Donald Shoup (@DonaldShoup) profile pictureDonald Shoup@DonaldShoup16 Feb 2021
“One of the biggest barriers to affordable housing is parking requirements,” said Derek Teini, planning manager for the City of Laramie. City debates changes to parking standards wyomingnews.com/laramieboome… via @WY_Boomerang
City debates changes to parking standards

City debates changes to parking standards

During their special meeting on Feb. 10, City Council continued discussion about proposed changes to citywide parking standards.

wyomingnews.com
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Can't live in narratives
@alon@mastodon.social/@alonlevy.bsky.social (they) (@alon_levy) profile picture@[email protected]/@alonlevy.bsky.social (they)@alon_levy20 Dec 2020
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I don't think that's the project. The project is to build more housing in expensive cities. It's not about narratives, it's about building.
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Lololol
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Update: RHNA is good.
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"Huizar... ran a sprawling pay-to-play scheme, in which real estate developers allegedly were shaken down for cash bribes and donations in exchange for Huizar’s help getting high-rise development projects through the city’s arduous approval process."
LA Yimby (@layimby) profile pictureLA Yimby@layimby23 Jun 2020
Huizar arrested in corruption probe: latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m…
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The problem isn't just the individual. The city's "needlessly arduous" approval process enables, even encourages this corruption. LA needs to streamline its development processes and reduce political interference if it wants to stop this behavior.
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Huizar arrested in corruption probe: latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m…
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"L.A.’s major housing problem is not the small number of homes sitting empty. It’s the shortage of housing affordable to middle- and low-income Angelenos. 1/2 latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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"Council members could make a bigger impact if they focused on streamlining the development process and creating programs that incentivize developers to build housing at all income levels." 2/2
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