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August 29, 2001

HOUSING TRUST FUND ADVISORY GROUP FORMED Council action taken by Council Member Pacheco (mover 2001), Council Member Reyes, Council Member Padilla, and Council Member Garcetti, CF 01-1458. As recommended in the Housing Crisis Task Force Report "In Short Supply" (the "report"), the City of Los Angeles established a Housing Trust Fund to provide funds for the development of affordable housing. However, the City is still developing a dedicated source of revenue for the trust fund to ensure adequate production of affordable housing. The report recommended several sources of funding, but did not study the feasibility of the sources Therefore, it was recommended that the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), with the cooperation and assistance of the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), the City Administrative Officer (CAO), Chairs of the Housing Crisis Task Force, the City Attorney, and other City departments report within 90 days to the Housing and Community Development and Budget and Finance Committees on any and all potential sources of revenue including but not limited to those identified in the Housing Crisis Task Force report recommendations, with the goal to reach $100 million annually to increase the Housing Trust Fund. On August 9 the first meeting of the Housing Trust Fund Advisory Group was held. The group is well represented, with participants from the Mayor's Office, City Council, CLA, CAO, LAHD, Building & Safety, Community Development Department, Community Redevelopment Agency, Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency, City Attorney, Housing Authority City of Los Angeles, and several groups including Southern California Association for Non-Profit Housing, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Central City Association, Building Industry Association, and Shelter Partnership. The Advisory Group discussed various City revenue sources for the trust fund, including those proposed by the Housing Crisis Task Force report from March 2000, and new ideas proposed by the business community and others as part of ongoing efforts of the Housing Business Summit held in February 2001. The group agreed to develop a comprehensive list of "all" potential sources of funding, and to focus first on neutral methods to obtain permanent City funding sources (which will not decrease current allocations to various City budget line items). The Advisory Group then designated several proposed funding sources to undergo further scrutiny by a small working group, which met on August 16. This meeting further discussed various funding sources and identified more detailed analyses required for some sources. The working group will next meet on August 30.

June 15, 2001

CONSULTANTS TO CONDUCT STUDIES RECOMMENDED BY THE HOUSING CRISIS TASK FORCE Action taken by: Housing & Community Redevelopment Committee of the Los Angeles City Council Members: Council Member Nick Pacheco (Chair) - present Council Member Nate Holden - absent Council file 99-1753 Report from Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) was moved to City Council for approval on May 9, 2001, and approved by City Council on May 18, 2001. Report is relative to certification and approval of a list of consultants to conduct studies related to Housing Crisis Task Force recommendations, including nexus studies and other economic analyses required to establish programs such as a commercial development linkage fee, inclusionary housing, or replacement housing requirements. Additional studies will include housing program design, policy development, and technical assistance. The consultants responded to a Request for Proposals issued in November 2000. Further, the report requests authority for the LAHD to enter into contracts with any of the approved consultants within three years and approval of eight contracts (*) forthwith. Included in the eight contracts are studies related to the Housing Crisis Task Force report, and the specific section is noted in parentheses below. The full list of approved vendors is as follows: California Housing Partnership Corporation* (A1) California Reinvestment Committee Century Housing Corporation* (R3) Cotton Bridges Associates* (P1, P2) David Paul Rosen & Associates Fair Housing Congress of San Gabriel Valley Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler Karin Pally Associates* (P8, ED3) Mental Health Advocacy Robinson & Pearman LLP* (R4.2) Roderick T. Field* (A2, R3, R10) Shelter Partnership* Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing* (P8, R10, BR2.2, ED3) UCLA Advanced Policy Institute In addition, the staff of the Policy & Planning Unit of LAHD will be heading the efforts related to other areas of the Housing Crisis Task Force Report (A3, A4, A5, R1, R4.6, R8.2.1 and R10). For questions regarding these or other matters please call the Policy & Planning Unit at (213) 367-9150.

March 12, 2001

DEMOLITION OF RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN LOS ANGELES From January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2000, a total of 1,427 housing units were demolished in the City of Los Angeles.

January 25, 2001

CITY PLANNING COMMISSION [Case# CPC 2000-4788] The City Planning Commission approved 28 recommendations made in the "Los Angeles City Planning Department Recommendation Report." The report will now go before the City Council who will decide which recommendations to follow. Background: On November 15, 2000 the City Planning Commission discussed over 60 proposals to facilitate the production of affordable and market rate housing. The Commission reviewed results of the Housing Subcommittee's workshop and proposals from the City Council's Housing Crisis Task Force contained in its report "In Short Supply." Per the Commission's request, staff drafted the Recommendation Report which included the Committee's recommendations.

January 12, 2001

CITY COUNCIL MEETING [Council File 01-0055] Motion [Galanter - Pacheco] relative to including the LA Housing Department (LAHD) complaint forms for the Housing Enforcement Program and the Systematic Code Enforcement Program on the City's web page (including a mechanism to return the forms electronically). The Information & Technology Agency and the LAHD are to report back to the Housing & Community Redevelopment Committee and the Information Technology & General Services Committee in 45 days.

December 18, 2000

Fourteen applications were received in response to the "Request for Qualifications for Housing Study and Research Contracts." Successful applicants will be eligible to enter into contracts for services related to Housing Crisis Task Force recommendations.

November 15, 2000

"Request for Qualifications for Housing Study and Research Contracts" was released. Applications are due on or before December 18, 2000 at 4p.m. Application materials can be downloaded from http://www.cityofla.org/LAHD/index.htm or call the Policy and Planning Unit of the Los Angeles Housing Dept. at (213) 367-9149 for application materials.

October 31, 2000

PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Council File 00-0613 Status of the proposed ordinance governing replacement of affordable housing lost through new development was discussed. A representative of the City Attorney's office felt that this ordinance was not the way to achieve the desired result. Pending litigation vs. the City of Los Angeles [Lincoln Place] over the Ellis Act was cited as a reason for their concern. Councilmember Miscikowski suggested that Richard Alarcon be asked to clarify the legislative intent of the recent amendment to Ellis Act vis a vis L.A.'s pending replacement ordinance The matter was continued for 30 days. Planning Department will continue working on the ordinance.

October 31, 2000

Council File 99-1753 At their meeting today, the City Council approved [11-0] the release of an RFQ which includes nexus studies and other studies required for potential funding sources for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The Planning Department was requested to review the recommendatins of the Housing Crisis Task Force Land Use & Planning Subcommittee and report back to the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing Crisis. The LA Housing Dept (LAHD) was instructed to report back in three weeks to the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing Crisis with a matrix of all projects/studies organized by priority with timelines in the order that each must occur for the work to proceed smoothly, including any aspect of the RFQ that might need to be expedited, and annotated as to which can be accomplished in-house by LAHD and which matters will have to be out-sourced. LAHD was instructed to establish a working group for the purposes of evaluating the proposed study designs, program and ordinance development, and other tasks related to proposed permanent funding sources for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The working group will be comprised of: --chairs of the Housing Crisis Task Force; --five members of the public; --representatives of the LA Unified School District; --representatives of the following City of LA departments: LAHD, Dept of Building & Safety, City Planning, City Attorney, Chief Legislative Analyst, Office of Administriative and Research Services, Office of the Mayor, and other departments and offices of elected officials, as warranted. LAHD was instructed to report back to the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing Crisis with recommendations for executing contracts with firms responding to the RFQ upon completion of the application review and evaluation process.

October 25, 2000

Council File 99-1753 First meeting of the "Ad Hoc Committee on Housing Crisis". Members of the Committee: Council Member Nick Pacheco, Chair Council Member Mike Feuer Council Member Hal Bernson Council Member Jackie Goldberg Council Member Mike Hernandez Council Member Cindy Miscikowski Council Member Mark Ridley-Thomas (absent) The Housing Crisis Task Force present its report entitled "In Short Supply". The Committee recommended that the RFQ for housing studies be released. This will include the nexus study that will determine whether there is a link between development and the need for affordable housing. The full City Council will vote on releasing the RFQ at their meeting on October 31, 2000 at 10AM.

October 24, 2000

Meeting of the Planning & Land Use Management committee (PLUM): Status of the replacement housing ordinance was continued for one week. [Council File 00-0613]

October 17, 2000

Meeting of the Planning & Land Use Management committee (PLUM): Status of the replacement housing ordinance was continued for one week as were a majority of items on the agenda. [Council File 00-0613]

September 26, 2000

Representatives from Planning, Housing, and the City Attorney met to discuss the drafting of a replacement housing ordinance, pursuant to the motion made on September 12, 2000 [Council File 00-0613]. The Planning Dept will draft the ordinance with input from the Housing Department's Policy and Planning Unit. The document will then be sent to the City Attorney.

September 12, 2000

Council File 00-0613 At its meeting held today, the Planning & Land Use Management committee (PLUM) considered motions relative to a proposal to require that any new development which removes Moderate/Low- income housing units from the market shall replace those units on a one-for-one basis within a three-mile radius of the development. At that time, the Committee asked that the City Attorney, with the assistance of the Planning Dept and LA Housing Dept, prepare an ordinance ameding the LA Municipal Code to effect this proposal, as modified to authorize the Director of Planning with Council approval to permit the developer to provide replacement affordable housing in other areas of the city when sites for affordable housing are not available within a three-mile radius of the developer's project. Locations identified for the replacement affordale housing must be characterized by an affordable housing shortage or a job- housing imbalance. This matter is scheduled for futher consideration by the PLUM at its meeting to be held on October 17, 2000 at 1pm in Room 316 of City Hall East.

August 3, 2000

A working group was convened to address inclusionary and replacement housing. The group consists of representatives from city government, public interest groups, and private business interests.

July 7, 2000

Motion (Bernson - Goldberg) asking that CF 00-0613, currently pending in the Housing & Community Redevelopment Committee be withdrawn from committee and placed before the City Council. The motion was as follows: 1) move that as a condition for approval, the City requires that any Public or Private development which removes Moderate/Low- income housing units from the market shall replace those units on a one for one basis within a three-mile radius of the development. 2) move that the City sponsor State legislation which, if adopted, would establish this replacement requirement, currently pending since March 31, 2000 in the Housing & Community Redevelopment Committee.

May 15, 2000

The City Council voted 13-0 to approve the Ad Hoc Committee’s Budget recommendations of $5 million to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund (Council file 00-0600).

April 26, 2000

The Ad Hoc Committee on the Budget proposed to set aside a total of $5 million to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund which will be used as seed money to address the housing crisis in the City of Los Angeles. A total of $300,000 in the Trust Fund will be used for a study that will explore the feasibility and legality of imposing a development fee that will serve as a permanent and ongoing source of revenue for the Trust Fund. The funding would be as follows: $2.104 million from the City’s General Fund, $1.596 million from the Municipal Finance Fund (includes $300,000 to be used for a housing nexus study needed for some of the proposed permanent sources for the Trust Fund), and $1.3 million from the Condominium Conversion Fee revenue (subject to review and approval by the City Attorney).

April 19, 2000

City Council adopted the Housing and Community Redevelopment Committee Report to create a Housing Trust Fund and adopted the following two amendments: 1) direct the LAHD, CAO, and CLA to include in their report information about what might needs to be done to enact inclusionary zoning requirements and an in-lieu fee; and 2) direct the CLA to report with an update on the nexus study in connection with this matter that was begun in the late 1980’s (Council file 99-1753).

April 13, 2000

KCRW Radio News of Santa Monica College aired a broadcast of “The Housing Crisis In LA’ on April 13th. Invited guests included Jan Breidenbach, Executive Director of the California Association of Non-Profit Housing; Fernando Guerra, Director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles and Professor of Political Science at Loyola Maramount; Mike Lambert, President of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles; Mike Woo, Director of the Local Initiative Support Corporation; and Jack Kyser, Chief Economist with the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation. The broadcast can be heard at www.kcrw.org at “Which Way LA?”

April 12, 2000

Housing and Community Redevelopment Committee (H&CR) passed a motion recommending the following actions by City Council: 1) instruct the LAHD, the CLA, and the CAO to work with the Housing Crisis Task Force to identify the steps necessary to create a Housing Trust Fund, review action items recommended by the Housing Crisis Task Force regarding dedicated sources of funding for housing, and report their findings with recommendations to Council within 30 days; and 2) instruct the LAHD, CAO, and CLA to include in their report(s) information on the Housing Crisis Task Force Report Recommendation F2.2. concerning the adoption of a linkage fee for commercial development, and Recommendation F2.5.1 pertaining to the dedication of a portion of the transient occupancy tax. (Both of these recommendations directly relate to developing a local source of funding for the Housing Trust Fund)

April 7, 2000

City Council adopted the motion introduced on March 31, 2000, recommending that the City encourage State and Federal delegation to sponsor legislation that would provide incentive programs for increased construction of affordable housing units throughout the State of California (Council file 00-0612). The second motion was referred to the Housing and Community Redevelopment Committee but has not been acted on yet.

April 5, 2000

City Council referred the Housing Crisis Task Force Report to the Housing and Community Redevelopment Committee for review and consideration. Council also directed the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), and the City Administrative Officer (CAO) to work with the Housing Crisis Task Force to identify steps to create a Housing Trust Fund and report on their findings with recommendations to the Council within 30 days (Council file 99-1753).

March 31, 2000

City Council referred the following two motions to the Housing and Community Redevelopment Committee for consideration: 1) move that the City encourage State and Federal delegation to sponsor legislation to provide incentive programs for increased construction of affordable housing units throughout the State of California (Council file 00-0612); and 2) as a condition for approval, the City requires that any public or private development which removes Moderate/Low-income housing units from the market shall replace those units on a one for one basis within a three mile radius (Council file 00-0613).

March 30, 2000

The Press Conference on the Housing Crisis Task Force Report was held on March 30th at 9:00 a.m. on the northeast corner of Witmer and Miramar, between 2nd and 3rd Streets, west of downtown. Speakers included Cardinal Roger Mahony, Councilmembers Mike Feuer and Jackie Goldberg; Maria Elena Durazo of HERE Local 11; Lauren Saunders, Co-Chair of the Task Force; Stanley Michota, Jr., Immediate Past President of LA Headquarters City Association; and Michael Woo, Director of LA Programs and Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

September 21, 1999

MOTION TO CONVENE HOUSING CRISIS TASK FORCE Per a motion approved by the Los Angeles City Council, a Housing Crisis Task Force was convened to consider the dimensions of the housing crisis in Los Angeles and to offer a range of action items for consideration by the City Council.