Important Update: FBV & OTA Team Up to Challenge the PSH Ordinance in Court
Use the Form Below to Send an Email Right Now Telling Garcetti, Bonin and Feuer That You Support Us!
As many of you know, the new PSH Ordinance exempts homeless housing projects from height restrictions, density limits, setback minimums and parking requirements that apply to market rate developments … and creates an accelerated approval process that completely strips working families of the right to comment on and challenge homeless housing projects in their communities.
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Let’s Fight Back, Venice!
Subject Line: I Support Venice’s Challenge to the PSH Ordinance!
Email Body:
Dear Mayor Garcetti, Councilman Bonin and City Attorney Feuer:
You have become known as the principal architects and advocates of the City’s plan to address the homeless crisis through the development of large housing projects, so I wanted each of you to know how shocked I was to read in the Los Angeles Times ( http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rising-hhh-costs-20180511-story.html ) last week that, at current rates of spending, you will deliver fewer than 6,000 of the 10,000 supportive housing units promised to Prop HHH voters in 2016 and that those units will cost an average of $475,000 each, excluding the cost of City land (with units in two projects costing more than $650,000 each).
Further, I see that despite your promises to promote “geographic equity” and roll back the disastrous containment policy that gave rise to Skid Row, you are moving forward with your plan to concentrate a disproportionate share of these housing projects in a handful of communities – like Venice and Lincoln Heights – that lack political power, while protecting your wealthy backers in uber-affluent enclaves like Brentwood and the Pacific Palisades and using your new PSH Ordinance to shut down public comment and strip working families of the legal right to challenge oversized projects in their communities.
- How can you possibly believe that giving away half-million dollar homes to a lucky few – representing a small fraction of LA’s massive homeless population – is the answer?
- What does this say to working families fighting the good fight day in and day out to make rent and mortgage payments on less desirable properties – and to the thousands of people in need of shelter who will be left out in the cold because they did not draw a winning ticket in the Garcetti-Bonin-Feurer Lottery?
- And what gives you the right as elected officials to use laws to silence taxpayers and voters who disagree with your policies?
More and more, Prop HHH and the PSH Ordinance are starting to look less like measures to help the homeless and more like measures to line the pockets of LA’s notorious real estate developers. And in any event, they are becoming emblematic of the wastefulness and poor judgment of LA’s leadership.
Last week, two Venice groups – Fight Back Venice and the Oxford Triangle Association – brought lawsuits challenging the PSH Ordinance and seeking to preserve the public’s right to weigh in on new projects in their communities.
They will no doubt be vilified as NIMBY’s by you and others, but they did the right thing in standing up to profligacy and high-handedness in City Hall. For the sake of working families and the homeless alike, somebody has got to get this runaway train back on track … even if that means going to court.
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