Come work with us! Abundant Housing LA is seeking a Field Organizer to conduct in-person and digital outreach to AHLA members, community members, housing advocates, and other organizations to advance a pro-housing agenda. The Field Organizer is responsible for promoting an understanding of how more housing makes Los Angeles more affordable, livable, and environmentally sustainable. The Field Organizer will work on a small team and will work closely with the Organizing Director to craft, execute, and oversee a locally-tailored organizing strategy for specific areas.   Loading... Taking ..read more

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 rates are discouraging would-be home sellers. A new ApartmentList report found that Greater LA permitted 2.5 new homes per 1,000 residents in 2022, down from 2.5 in 2004 and 3.3 in 1990. Further afield, the Builders Remedy has come for Palo Alto, New York governor Hochul’s housing plan continued to rankle the NYC suburbs, and a TikTo ..read more

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 match, making it easier to secure affordable housing funding and coordinate infrastructure investment. LOS ANGELES, CA—AB 1335, Abundant Housing’s sponsored bill to align housing and transportation planning at the regional level has passed out of committee. Currently, regional planning for transportation and housing growth are based o ..read more

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 sprawl while streamlining infill housing. Further afield, the notorious Terraces at Lafayette project made famous in Golden Gates received its final approvals, Huntington Beach , and Chris Elmendorf questioned the legal basis of San Francisco’s discretionary approvals system. Outside California, Colorado governor Jared Polis propose ..read more

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 that density bonus law will apply in the Coastal Zone. Read our full endorsement letter below: Loading... Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [245.57 KB] The post Abundant Housing Endorses AB 1287 appeared first on Abundant Housing LA ..read more

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 facilitate emergency egress, some other countries allow single-stair buildings, above three stories in height and have better fire safety outcomes than the United States. Dual-stair buildings reduce flexibility in building design and make it harder to build housing, particularly family-sized apartments, on narrow lots. AB 835 takes ..read more

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 dorm they want to build on so-called People’s Park. The ruling, which essentially states that college students are pollution, provoked immediate backlash from state lawmakers, who introduced a bill to exempt noise and population impacts from CEQA, and Governor Newsom, who called out “NIMBYs who weaponize CEQA” and promised to ref ..read more

Come work with us! Abundant Housing LA is seeking a Policy & Research Director to create data-driven and policy-informed work on housing issues relevant to Los Angeles County. This is a key position in AHLA and helps drive the organization’s understanding and leadership on housing issues. Read more in the full job description: Loading... Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [58.46 KB] To Apply: Send a resume and cover letter to Alex Zambrano alexz@abundanthousingla.org with the subject line “Policy & Research Director”. Please also include a work s ..read more

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 RHNA numbers, passing an ordinance that declares the city exempt from the builders remedy, and refusing to adopt a housing element. AHLA-endorsed Assemblymember Tina McKinnor introduced a bill to ban so-called “crime-free housing” policies that disproportionately harm Black and Latino renters who police suspected were involved in cr ..read more

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 prevalence of single family housing, represents the culmination of years of advocacy and work with local advocates and policymakers to plan for housing growth in a fair, sustainable way. Moving forward, these housing elements promise to guide the Los Angeles area into a new era of housing policy as cities adopt new zoning rules and imple ..read more