Paper outlines the Los Angeles, CA, business and development community's strategies to solve the affordable housing crisis at all levels: affordable housing, workforce housing and homeownership.
"Our goal is to enhance a development environment that will both accomplish the goal of building the 60,000 housing units that the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) have identified as the need for Los Angeles in the next five years, encourage and save the dwindling middle class in Los Angeles, and preserve our job base as we head into recession." [14-page report in PDF format, 81Kb]
Thanks to Walter Kunz
FULL STORY: Downtown Los Angeles - Affordable Housing

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