Congratulations - thanks to your advocacy, SB 330 passed the Senate on Friday, and Governor Newsom has pledged to sign it into law!
Action Item for This Week:Last week, the City of LA moved forward with a plan to ban street sleeping across much of the City, including within 10 feet of a driveway or building entrance and within 500 feet of a park or school.
The ban will leave almost no safe space for individuals experiencing homelessness even as the City lacks adequate shelter— there are only 10,000 shelter beds to accommodate over 36,000 houseless Angelenos.
By applying new and complex restrictions, this law will increase the number of confrontations between LAPD officers and unhoused Angelenos.
Since its passage in 2016, the Transit Oriented Communities program has emerged as a significant force in encouraging denser new housing near transit.
Between September 2017, when TOC was launched, and December 2018, about 12,300 apartments were proposed or permitted. Of that number, 19% (or 2,300 apartments) will be affordable to low-income renters.
