Recent Streetsblog LA posts about affordable housing

The defunct campus of Glenelder Elementary in Hacienda Heights, could be the future site of a luxury condo development. Credit: Chris Greenspon/Streetsblog

County Supervisors Toss Out Activist Appeal Against Hacienda Heights Condos, Solis Abstains

By Chris Greenspon | Jul 27, 2022 | No Comments

A coalition of concerned residents had a dozen arguments up their sleeves to stave off development in their neighborhood, but it wasn’t enough to get their way

The exterior gate of Esperanza Villa Tiny Homes Village in Baldwin Park. Credit: Chris Greenspon/Streetsblog

As Baldwin Park Tiny Homes Expand, A Resident Tells Her Success Story

By Chris Greenspon | Jul 12, 2022 | No Comments

SBLA sat down with a recent resident of the Esperanza Villa to get a sense of what services and opportunities unhoused people in need in the San Gabriel Valley can find there.

L.A. mixed-use affordable housing - photo via L.A. Dept. of City Planning

L.A. City’s Transit-Oriented Communities Affordable Housing Incentives Are Working

By Joe Linton | Feb 28, 2020 | No Comments

In 2019 the Transit-Oriented Communities program accounted for 42% of all proposed housing in L.A. City - more than 14,500 permitted units

Mariachi musician Luis Valdivia (white suit, center) waits to address the crowd regarding an $800 rent increase he was hit with at a rally at Mariachi Plaza in April, 2017. He stands next to Arturo Ramírez, president of the Organización de Mariachis Unidos de Los Ángeles. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Rent Stabilization and the Integrity of Vulnerable Ecosystems: Some Last Thoughts on Prop 10

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 6, 2018 | 20 Comments

Within a few weeks of buying the building located a block from Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights at the end of 2016, Frank “B.J.” Turner had raised rents on a handful of long-term tenants by between 60 and 80 percent. He had also created a website for the building, re-christened “Mariachi Crossing,” targeting those that […]

The project will straddle Crenshaw Blvd., south of Exposition, at the juncture of the Expo and Crenshaw/LAX Lines. Source: Metro

Project Planned for Lots at Expo/Crenshaw Takes Another Step Forward

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 29, 2018 | 2 Comments

Last Thurday, the Metro Board of Directors approved a 14-month Exclusive Negotiation Agreement (ENA) with developer WIP-A, LLC, (a subsidiary of Watt Companies), allowing the project planned for the Metro- and County-owned lots at the Expo/Crenshaw station to take the next step forward. The move is a bit more of a head-scratcher than it might […]

The Paul R. Williams Apartments at 1010 E. Jefferson Blvd. in Historic South Central. Williams was the first African-American architect to receive the AIA Gold Medal (it was awarded posthumously in 2017; Williams died in 1980). Source: Hollywood Community Housing Corporation

In Questionable Move, Affordable Housing Developer Awards Leasing Applications to First 400 Callers

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 21, 2018 | 2 Comments

Leasing applications are generally treated with more care than concert tickets that go to the first ten callers that happen to be listening in. Not this time.

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