Advocates need money to fund a campaign to repeal a provision in California's Constitution that makes it harder to build affordable housing, writes The Times Editorial Board. (via latimesopinion)
While cities have devised many Article 34 workarounds over the years, it remains an obstacle. Los Angeles, for example, last went to votersto get authorization to build 3,500 units of affordable housing in each council district. Now, the city has hit that limit in Council District 14, which includes downtown, and is close to hitting the limit in districts east and south of downtown.
California voters have consistently backed the building of affordable housing, and they have been generous in paying for it. It’s a remnant of an era that California should repudiate. A real estate industry group drafted the original initiative to require voter approval for public housing in 1950 — right after the federal Housing Act of 1949 banned explicit racial segregation in public housing. The initiative was framed as a way for residents to preserve “local control.
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