Building More Affordable Housing: Mayor Bass Secures Funding To Build Hundreds of More Affordable Housing Units and Make Infrastructure Improvements To Reduce Carbon Emissions[...]

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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass today announced that the City has secured funding to bring hundreds of new affordable housing units and infrastructure improvements that will reduce carbon emissions by an estimated 66,000 metric tons - the equivalent of roughly 15,000 cars per year. These funding awards align with Mayor Bass' comprehensive effort in Los Angeles to urgently confront the homelessness crisis by building more housing, preventing people from falling into homelessness and bringing people inside.

"We must do all that we can to build more housing, cut through bureaucratic red tape and move with urgency toward building more affordable and climate-friendly housing," said Mayor Bass. "I thank the California Strategic Growth Council for their partnership and investment in advancing our housing and climate goals, and building hundreds more units for Angelenos to call home."

The Mayor's Office led city departments in applying for three different Affordable Housing Sustainable Communities grants, which yielded a combined $103 million for affordable housing and sustainable infrastructure projects in L.A. Those projects include:

• More Housing and Infrastructure Improvements In Watts: The Jordan Downs Redevelopment Project Phase S6 will bring 100 new units online, with 88 of those units being affordable. The funding will also allow for the implementation and expansion of the Walk-Bike Watts program to allow for walk and bike lane improvements.

• More Housing and Infrastructure Improvements In South Park: The Alveare Family is the first phase of a redevelopment of state-surplus land and will bring 105 new units online, with 104 of those units being affordable. This redevelopment project will include a partnership with LA Metro to purchase new Metro Rail cars for the local Metro D Line extension.

• More Housing and Infrastructure Improvements in Lincoln Heights: The Century + Restorative Care Village will bring 146 new units online, with 145 of them being affordable. This project will also construct new bus-only lanes and close an active transportation infrastructure gap between Union Station and the LA County healthcare campus.

Under Mayor Bass' leadership, Los Angeles is working to build more housing faster to confront the homelessness crisis with the urgency it requires. Immediately after taking office, she issued her first Executive Directive to cut through red tape at City Hall to accelerate affordable housing review and permitting. More than 23,000 units of affordable housing are being accelerated through this effort. She also issued Executive Directive 3 to build more housing faster and expand homelessness solutions such as RV storage on publicly-owned land.In 2023, tent encampments came down in every council district, and thousands more Angelenos came inside than in 2022 thanks to urgent action locking arms on the local, state and national level.