Produce Housing for All
1Create strong institutions and reliable processes
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Support strong public and private housing institutions and agencies that are each specialized and all seen as part of a single ecosystem.
- Centralize the system of accessing affordable housing in LA County with a single point of contact and support services for application and placement.
- Implement social housing pilot projects, including through ULA, LACAHSA, and other initiatives.
2Ensure permanent funding and simplify the capital stack
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Continue to build permanent sources of financing for affordable housing and ensure permanent affordability.
- Continue to explore the LPHA model to identify ways to simplify the existing financing process.
- Continue to explore ways to contain and control costs.
- Explore a “public guarantee” for bank loans financing affordable housing.
3Use public land and social housing zoning
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Scale up social housing through land banking, public land development, and partnerships with other institutions.
- Continue using entitlements to incentivize development.
- Utilize zoning as a tool.
- Further Equitable Housing Policies.
Preserve Vulnerable Housing
4Maintain existing housing stock
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Dedicate public funding to new production and preservation of affordable housing.
- Create financial incentives to retrofit existing housing that requires affordability commitments.
- Consider including essential services and other community resources within new housing developments.
Protect Tenants & Prevent Displacement
5Support tenants
Recommendations:
- Establish and enforce strong tenant protections.
- Centralize the system of accessing affordable housing in LA County with a single point of contact and support services for application and placement.
- Invest in care-first approaches.
Promote Equity, Inclusion, and Sustainability
6Create mixed-income communities
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Broaden the base of support for affordable housing by expanding eligibility, where appropriate, to include households earning more than the median income, while also prioritizing low-income households.
- Do not require affordable housing residents to recertify income eligibility after moving in.
- Design housing projects and neighborhoods to integrate mixes of incomes, household sizes, and types. Maintain the benefits of ethnic enclaves by integrating design, programming, and leasing practices that are culturally meaningful.
7Promote alternative housing models
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Continue pursuing alternative ownership models.
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Ensure greater resident agency.
- Continue to explore ways to increase wealth-building beyond homeownership.
8Create a new housing narrative
Recommendations
- Participants were extremely energized after learning about the Viennese model and brainstormed ways to develop a new narrative and more public support for this model in two broad manners: building off the LA region’s existing work to increase the base of support through narrative change; and being clear, thoughtful and strategic within a coalition.
- Build off existing work to broaden the base of support through narrative change.
- Being clear, thoughtful, and strategic within a coalition.