With No Easy Solutions To Get More Family-Sized Housing Built In LA, Is Public Housing An Option?

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L.A. stopped building public housing in the 1950s, but some state and local lawmakers are now pushing for more direct government involvement in housing production.

Alex Lee, who represents parts of the San Francisco Bay Area in the California Assembly, has introduced a bill that would create a government-run social housing authority to build and lease homes to families who would pay no more than 30% of their income on housing. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill spearheaded by Lee last year.

Locally, L.A. city council members Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman and Hugo Soto-Martinez have expressed support for social housing models similar to those in cities like Vienna, Austria, where more than half of residents live in housing owned or subsidized by the government.

Whatever solution lawmakers pursue, Myers said, older homeowners in L.A. should feel more responsibility for supporting new home building in their neighborhoods for today’s young families.

https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-family-sized-housing-policy-three-two-bedroom-apartments-incentives-boyle-heights-rent-overcrowding

Article notes a severe shortage of family housing in Los Angeles, and reviews alternatives for creating additional family friendly housing with enough bedrooms to accommodate children.

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1. Yes, governments need to return to the house building business.

Buy up empty plots of abandoned or undeveloped land and build any mix of apartment/condo towers and small (less than 1500 sq ft) 2 or 3 br homes sold only to people/couples/families who will live in them and do not exceed a certain income threshold. No corporate or LLC or LLP or hedge fund owners. No rental conversions or AirBNB usage.