You do a lot more than supporting housing
By supporting housing, you transform Los Angeles into a better place for all
Supporting housing = supporting ⚖️ justice and equity ???? affordability ???? sustainability ???? the economy Friend, thanks for saying yes to more homes! We are able to build a movement to house LA because of your support and contributions. Because of you, we were able to support pro-housing bills including AB 1401 and SB 9 out of their houses of origins, get HCD to affirm the pare back of exclusionary zoning, and push Los Angeles city planning to acknowledge the need to rezone in their housing element. We are able to review & critique every major housing elements in LA County, and share our findings with HCD. You are supporting a lot more than just getting homes built. Housing is so important because it precedes almost everything else. On the individual level, it serves as a foundation for health, economic stability, and mental wellbeing, and collectively, more housing in LA means diversity, fairness and justice, sustainability, and a vibrant economy. All this is to say, you are awesome, we really appreciate your advocacy, and we want you to know the huge impact you have. With the legislative year ending in September and housing elements due in October, this week we are humbly asking you to deepen your impact by becoming a supporting member. Your dollars go directly into housing education and organizing to empower actions for pro-housing policies. Plus, we host monthly meetups and a special event annually just for you!
Fiftythree is the work of Artist, writer, and lawyer Jake Berman. Jake grew up in San Francisco, lived in LA, and now resides in New York City, where he is finishing up the Lost Subway of North America. The Lost Subways is a series of artwork visualizing past, present, and could've-been public transit routes in North American cities. An important part of making these art is archival research; based on information obtained from public records, library research collections, and internet archives, Jake was able to recover lost transit systems and re-introduce them to us visually.
Beyond the Lost Subways, Jake maintains a blog on Fiftythree, where he muses about pirates, election, but mostly transport, housing, and land use. Besides, he is a busy housing element hero and helped write our comment letters on Pasadena, Burbank, Beverly Hills, and Redondo Beach.
You can follow Jake on Twitter. And be sure to check out fiftythree.studio.
Saturday | 8.21.21 | 9:30–11 AM Meet at Heal the Bay Aquarium RSVP: email jaime@abundanthousingla.org" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #228ae6;">Jaime Del Rio
Monrovia Housing and Tenant Advocates Meeting
Pasadena Chapter Meeting Wed 8/4 | 6-7pm
Westside for Everyone chapter meeting
Culver City For More Homes members meeting Tue 8/3 | 6-7pm
West Hollywood Housing Element Advocates meeting Wed 8/4 | 6-7pm
Friends of the Purple Line Meeting
Please email jaime@abundanthousingla.org" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #228ae6;" rel="noopener">Jaime Del Rio to attend local meetings.
STILL accepting application! | HousingIsKey.com Qualifying renters and landlords are now eligible for 100% of rent and utilities owed.
UCLA-USC Survey: Nearly half of L.A. tenants owe back rent UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
A survey conducted by researchers from UCLA and USC found nearly half of renters in LA County owe back rent dating from during the pandemic. The medium amount owed by a renter household is $2800, meaning that renters owe landlords in the neighborhoods of $3 billion countywide. More importantly, the study illustrates worsening financial distress in renter households in March 2021 compared to July 2020. For example, in July 2020 about 16% of renters surveyed paid less than full rent at least one of the three months before the study was conducted; by March 2021, this share has gone up to 31%. Concurrently, more tenants are taking on debt just to stay sheltered. Even though the eviction moratorium is still in place, renters reported a dramatic increase in eviction cases lodged against them.
Legalizing Inexpensive Housing: We ran the rent numbers on Portland's 7 newly legal home options Sightline Institute
After a seven-year campaign, Portland on Sunday formally lifted a series of 97-year-old bans on seven different types of homes.
Becoming legal today on the vast majority of residential lots in Portland: a duplex, a triplex, a fourplex, a mixed-income or below-market sixplex, a large group co-living home, a double ADU, and a tiny backyard home on wheels.
Sunday, August 1, is the effective date for a series of reforms passed by Portland City Council over the last 12 months, including most provisions of the city’s “Residential Infill Project” and “Shelter to Housing Continuum Project.” They add up to a dramatic overhaul of the low-density zoning that Portland, like many other North American cities, created in the 1920s.
But today’s milestone comes with an implicit question. All these options may now be legal on paper. But will any of them actually be built?
This week in...
housing justice A Fight Over Zoning Tests Charlottesville’s Progress on Race/ The New York Times
housing justice Want to get rid of S.F.'s most toxic monument to racism and segregation? End single-family zoning/ San Francisco Chronicle
musings MORE DEVELOPMENT WOULD RUIN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD’S CHARACTER AND THAT CHARACTER IS SYSTEMIC RACISM / McSweeney's Internet Tendency
lesson from Kyoto Sustainable Infrastructure - The case of the Kyoto canal, or, building cities that can last a thousand years / WrathOfGnon via Substack
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