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Kevin on Housing |
Leadership includes listening and learning. This website is interactive. Please let me know what YOU think on this issue. Just click to send me an email: housing@mckeown.net. | |||||||||||
| Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights persistence paid off this spring, as our City Council mandated on-site affordable housing in almost all new residential zone multi-family developments in Santa Monica. No longer will condo developers be allowed to raze rent-controlled apartments without replacing at least some of the lost affordable housing. The new SMRR-backed law, which Bob Holbrook and Herb Katz opposed, eliminates in most cases the cheap "in-lieu" fees developers previously could pay to make a token gesture toward affordable housing. Instead, real units affordable to specified income brackets must be built on site, as part of the condo subdivision. Changed state law made preserving Santa Monica housing affordability increasingly difficult. We introduced inclusionary housing as a concept in May of 2005, but it took over a year to craft a law we're assured will be as effective as possible while withstanding anticipated challenges in the courts. Depending on the size of the condo project, developers in Santa Monica neighborhoods must henceforth dedicate between 20 and 25% of new units, as either ownership opportunities for moderate income families or rentals for low income tenants. These inclusionary units will help Santa Monica meet the "30% affordable" mandate voters gave the City with Prop. R, passed in 1990. |
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