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Contrasting the Los Angeles City Council's vote earlier today on mansionization, affecting single-family homes, another ordinance was passed today -- one that replaces a temporary 2005 law regarding downtown residential hotels, mostly used by low-income and nearly homeless people.
The ordinance protects single-room-occumpancy (SRO) and residential hotels within Los Angeles from becoming expensive lofts and condos. If owners want to convert their buildings, they must meet strict guidelines "requiring them to replace the residential units within two miles of the building or pay a fee that would provide for acquisition of a new site plus 80% of the cost of constructing new units" according to the LA Times.
336 buildings with 18,700 units are affected by the new law. Most are located downtown.
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Zach thanks so much for posting about this. I was happy that LA had passed a moratorium on new loft development specifically because of the issue of displacing homeless people. Now THIS latest move is another bold and needed one to protect the most vulnerable in the city.
It is a little sad though that you are congratulating the city's efforts to protect the rights of citizens to live on Skid Roe. Can you imagine the signs at a protest... "Protect the city's most vulnerable. Keep Skid Roe dumpy!"
Luckily the mayor won't give up his fight to hire 1000 more LAPD officers to harass the homeless on Skid Roe.
This is a difficult problem, with no easy solution, and even if this moratorium helps a few people short term it is going to hurt many long term.
"Luckily the mayor won't give up his fight to hire 1000 more LAPD officers to harass the homeless on Skid Roe."
Fish eggs aside mw. I wonder how serious this statement of yours is.
If you're being sarcastic forgive what I'm about to say here.
If you're not, you are ignorant about what put homeless people on the street in the first place. We can thank Ronald Reagan for the homless problem. Yes, it really does go that far back.
Saint Reagan simultaniouly cut funding for mental health, made it easier for patients to get themselves declared sane whether they were or not, and most of the people you see out there on the streets have been there ever since. Bush One of course never dealt with the aftermath, and lastly, The Clinton Administration had the opportunuty to turn that around and didn't. We've been shirking our responsibilites to the menatlly ill for 30-35 years.
It's a sad reflection of what we are and what our priorities are as a society. The people are human beings, and if your serious about what you said, you're an asshole.