— also known as DTLA 2040 because it would set the rules for development for the next 20 years — would designate a portion of historic skid row, between 5th and 7th streets and San Pedro Street and Central Avenue, as an area where only affordable housing could be built. The area, which will get a new zoning designation, IX1, meaning mixed industrial use, is a sliver of skid row.
there have been building booms nearby in the Arts District and historic core that pushed out low-income tenants. Yet having any neighborhood officially designated for low-income people is akin to at least economic if not racial segregation. But simply declaring there should be a mix of housing won’t make it a reality. How do you allow entry to market-rate developers without displacing thousands of poor people in that community who are either unstably housed or not housed at all?The downtown plan already requires housing built anywhere downtown to have a baseline percentage of affordable housing. If a project wants more benefits — like building more densely — the project must offer more affordable housing.
Why don't you go down to 'Skid Row' and buy all of the property there from the current owners and then rent them out BELOW market value, LAT? C'mon, 'money-where-your-mouth-is' time! I mean what else does 'Let....have affordable...housing' mean otherwise? The State doesn't own it
How about we take all the mentally sick and put them in a mental hospital and then we take all the criminal drug dealers and users and put them in jail. Boom 90% of homeless problem solved!
Wtf is “affordable and market-rate housing?”
How are the homeless little house projects going? They don’t go because “rules” right? And even though it’s FREE it will never be good enough. Just look at the immigrants in NY that will stay on the sidewalk to take over family housing rather than go to the shelter. NeverEnough