They can also fund affordable housing programs and encourage development with incentives. But city and town council ... to have a positive or neutral effect on surrounding property values ...

“We found that it is having a pretty strong negative effect on both market rate housing and affordable ... “Right To Counsel” program recently passed by L.A.’s City Council, which aims ...

A nonprofit group focused on planning issues is seeking to strike down one of L.A.’s signature programs for building affordable housing ... by the City Council before going into effect.

Last October, the Los Angeles City Planning ... crisis. Two housing initiatives — an Affordable Housing Overlay and expansions to the Transit Oriented Communities program — would have made ...

Developers and residents alike, Cover said, have voiced support for the program, and the city is already screening projects that will use the bonus and build affordable housing. “We have ...