Los Angeles residents don't know that the city has been declaring "Housing Crisis" since before the 1940s.

To drive people out of their homes when they can't find another roof for their heads is an act that should be considered well. Only God knows what the bitterness engendered would bring us later on

. . . to avoid evictions during the housing crisis

A low rent housing emergency still exists in Los Angeles

. . . steady increase in the number and size of high rise apartment. . .

. . .the number of homes for sale is descreasing

. . . normal policy is to support those zoning matters which are endorsed bv the councilman in whose district the property is located

. . .the result has been a housing shortage that hits the poor. . .

Overall Housing Policy is Needed

"An increasingly serious crisis" in low and moderate income housing here. . .

Condominium Conversions

Low-Rent Housing: Yes on Prop. 15

. . . political attempts to manipulate the economy have led to disruptive consequences and serious hidden side effects

Senior Housing Shortage

. . . five big cities which did not control rents had even worse abandonment rates. . .

. . . Local planning authorities receive lengthy public input from directly affected persons, visit the sites in question and make decisions for the good of the community. . .

. . . The current growth rate is only a few thousand a year

Saying the city has a housing crisis. . .

. . . There's not even a shortage of rental housing for persons of medium income despite the fact that occupancy levels are high.

Landlords Beware!: Rent Control Movement

. . . the argument that the Valley needs new construction to help ease the area's worsening housing shortage.

. . . over the last four years Los Angeles failed to spend $51.7 million of the $153.5 million it received in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.

. . ."the city find ways to entice developers into building more housing through incentives"

. . . there is little the city can do to provide housing and apartments for low - or moderate-income families.

. . . bulldozers are surrounding our boundaries, ready to plow through the city

. . .the Los Angeles City Council, launched a sneak attack on rent control

. . . instituting a "one stop" permit processing system and combing the various public hearings into one and using more discretion when determining the need for an extensive environmental impact report. .

. . .The [city's] General Plan does call for the protection of stable single-family areas and stable residential neighborhoods

. . . Los Angeles, governed by its freewheeling, developer-oriented market, has done none of these things

City Council should put a temporary moratorium on the destruction of apartment buildings

In the end legislation was not shaped by the council members, but by two smart attorneys who knew how to write a law

How is it possible that so many new apartment complexes, especially in Southern California, are begging for tenants. . .

...the city-ordered destruction of about 200 dilapidated homes...

... When low-income housing disappears, low-income renters are pushed into unaffordable housing. Some proportion becomes homeless

. . . the shortage of affordable housing stems from the widespread demolition of affordable housing

Los Angeles should be equally concerned about the skeletons rattling around in the closets of the Department of Planning

. . . rental vacancies steadily rose from 2% in 1918 to 4% In 1984 to more than 7% now. .

. . . 11,000 affordable rental housing units in Los Angeles have been demolished or converted to condos. . .

. . . seniors and people on fixed incomes would have nowhere to go if they were kicked out of their rent-controlled apartments

. . . close to 13,000 rent-controlled apartments have been converted to condos or demolished in the last five years

City Hall is doing something completely alien to its history and tradition; planning

Garcetti urges easing development red tape. . .

City Hall is allowing developers to pursue a building frenzy straight out of the storied tale Chinatown.