Regional

There are four main reasons, and unfortunately, they are not easy fixes.

"Starting two years ago, things started to change in the City. A series of policies were enacted that have made it much more difficult to create housing...."

Gap financing for three projects that are either proposed or already under construction.

Four proposed ordinances are a nice first step, but more can be done.

Voters in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange Counties would have a say.

Proposed program would be modeled after a 1960s policy from San Francisco.

The projects would create 401 residential units at a cost of $170 million.

Metro breaks ground on the second phase of the Purple Line extension.

The proposed developments would create over 550 residential units.

The program was created as part of the Republican-backed tax bill from late 2017.

"... the County needs to add more than 17,000 residential units for households earning less than 10 percent of the area median income in unincorporated areas. Yet between 2014 and 2016, just 226 units were built targeting this income bracket."

The project will occur over eight months between January 2019 and October 2019.