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20260621 Raman - A $200 appeal against a housing project triggers more than $20,000 in city staff time to respond.rtf
20260621 Raman - Meanwhile, LADWP imposes rules and requirements that no other major city requires, reducing the land available to build on, adding cost, and slowing projects down.rtf
20260621 Raman - Outdated lot regulations, expensive subdivision fees, and condo liability rules written for a different era have all but eliminated the homes that first-time buyers can actually afford.rtf
20260621 Raman - Projects have to get approvals over and over — ping-ponging between city departments and the City Council, sometimes relitigating the same decisions.rtf
20260621 Raman - The money to build affordable housing in Los Angeles exists. It sits across multiple public funding sources, each with its own application, its own timeline, its own requirements, and its own politics.rtf
20260621 Raman - There is currently no deadline by which the city must approve or reject a permit to build housing. 175 separate condition types, depts that contradict ea other, and inspectors who add new reqs mid-project.rtf
20260623 Bass - Signed the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance to convert underused commercial buildings into housing citywide.rtf
20260623 Bass crows about signing Raman's new rent cap [RSO].rtf
20260623 Bass – Signed an update to an ordinance that caps annual rent hikes btwn 1 and 4%, prohibits rent increases when tenants add family members, stops landlords from charging for utility usage.rtf
20260627 Bass defends delaying SB 79, high-density housing along transit line, by saying she doesn’t like Sacramento telling the city how to build and that LA is on its way to building the units.rtf
20260630 Bass says that Raman has been the chair of the committee on housing and homeless, been a councilor longer than Bass’s been mayor and incorrectly says could’ve made the changes to code to increase housing density.rtf
20260806 $14 million in rental assistance for seniors and people with disabilities [Bass, 2026 State of the City address].rtf
20260806 Tenant rights and a cap on rent increases, passed by City Council and signed by Bass. [2026 State of the City address].rtf
20260809 The Dept of City Planning (aka Los Angeles City Planning) undertakes initiatives at the encouragement or direction of the mayor, who has the power to appoint and remove the Director of Planning.rtf
20260810 Bass did not initially voice support for or opposition to the Mansion Tax, though she did later praise the revenue from it.rtf
20260810 Grok says Bass didn't sign or veto the Council resolution supporting repeal of Costa-Hawkins.rtf
20260810 It is strange that Bass’ ED 7 seemingly pulls numerical goals for improvement out of thin air. “… shall reduce processing timelines for permit and clearance related services between 25% and 30%”.rtf
20260811 Bass appears not to have been involved in the creation of (the City Planning Department was) the missing middle ordinances. They also have not been signed yet.rtf
20260830 Executive Directive 19 [ED 19].rtf
20260830 Executive Directive 7 [ED 7].rtf
34m00s Bass says that she and the council, presumably, changed “the zoning codes” to permit another half million units of affordable housing to be built. She's lying. It was CHIP.rtf
36m05s Bass says that Raman’s criticism that it is taking too long to build the 42,000 units of affordable housing of Executive Directive 1 is due to the time it takes to move things through the city MORE.rtf
Nearly 47,000 units of affordable housing are in the pipeline under Mayor Bass’ Executive Directive 1.rtf
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