Editorial: Newsom should sign the bill creating a unified affordable housing agency for L.A. County (via latimesopinion)
Assembly Bill 2011 would transform strip malls into housing and pay union-level wages to construction workers. Sounds like a win-win.Last week, Kamlager urged her colleagues to see the big picture and how the new agency can help address the big unsolved problem of affordable housing that bedevils every corner of the county: “People in Los Angeles are not thinking about us and they are not thinking about their politics.
The county has done almost nothing to significantly increase the amount of affordable housing. Since the state’s redevelopment agencies were dissolved a decade ago, there has been no comparable program or permanent source of funding to build affordable housing. And no city has stepped up.This bill has drawn major support across the various cities and will allow them to work together to create more housing and come up with a funding mechanism. No tax gets levied without voter approval.
This is an ambitious and smart plan to tackle a problem that has eluded any fix so far. Every part of the county will get a seat at the table. Let’s get enough affordable housing so that no person has to live in an unfinished garage, no family of four is wedged into a one-bedroom apartment and, worst of all, no one ends up on a sidewalk. Let’s see what this bill can accomplish.
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