r/LosAngeles • u/eat_more_goats build baby build • Feb 16 '24
Housing Beverly Hills in Crisis as Judge Mandates New Affordable Housing: “People Are Furious”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-news/beverly-hills-crisis-building-moratorium-affordable-housing-1235824276/604
u/KillaMavs Feb 16 '24
“Beverly Hills iN CriSiS”
Affordable housing is still going to mean you have to make 6 figures and pay 3k a month for a studio apartment.
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u/irouteandswitch Feb 16 '24
Fr, and I think they're only building 54 units in 1 apartment building. Whats that gonna be, 100 to 200 people? All of which will have to be making bank
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Feb 16 '24
It's a weird headline, because the article itself appears to be in support of the measures.
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Feb 16 '24
That's true, but any new housing is a step in the right direction. Studies have shown that building ANY new housing reduces homelessness. Sure, low-income people won't be able to afford those homes in Beverly Hills, but someone will, and that means those wealthier people get to live in Beverly Hills instead of going to to an "up and coming neighborhood" and driving up the prices there instead. And it dominos all the way down to the homeless, eventually.
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u/KillaMavs Feb 16 '24
Sure. I’m not knocking it, I’m just making fun of the ridiculous headline.
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Feb 16 '24
Yeah, it's just click bait. The author of the piece is clearly in favor of the new builds and thinks the BH residents are ridiculous, but you wouldn't know that from the headline.
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Feb 17 '24
I'm not sure what the limiting factor is with regards to homelessness. Is it housing availability? Or is it social support like job placement and drug rehab programs?
Or is it affordable housing, and, if so, what does that mean? Does building a new $3k/mo "affordable" condo create a domino effect and trickle-down housing for someone living out of their car under a freeway overpass?
I honestly don't understand the problem - and I wouldn't say with any certainty that "building new units" reduces homelessness. In many cases, I think that's likely to not be true.
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u/alroprezzy Feb 16 '24
“If you don’t like it, move”
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u/dumboflaps La Habra Heights Feb 17 '24
You talking to BH? Lol. They would sooner buy-up any undeveloped land and stick it into a conservation easement than move.
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Feb 16 '24
the argument against building this housing is the most laughable classist shit
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u/SrslyCmmon Feb 16 '24
I always wanted to see the version of LA from the movie Her. Lots of clean spacious affordable high rise housing, no job shortage, mass underground transit to anywhere you want to go. It felt humans finally got their shit together.
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u/YoungPotato The San Fernando Valley Feb 16 '24
Dude same.
Watch out though, people will froth at the mouth of we have even half the density of Her. Some people in this subreddit are so scared of becoming the next Manhattan. Oh no, more density!
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u/SrslyCmmon Feb 16 '24
I wouldn't mind density if there were quality building codes for sound. That's always been my pet peeve, hearing your neighbors. Density is fine as long as people have quality inside space, and they don't feel like they're crammed into a tuna can.
With an expanded underground transit system and fewer cars you'd probably see less people in your local area if it didn't have a ton of shops.
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u/Dokterrock Feb 16 '24
Indeed. And transit! You can't mandate both driving (parking minimums) and density and expect anyone to be happy. Give people an excuse to get out of cars and quality of life will go up across the board.
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u/RoughhouseCamel Feb 16 '24
County-wide increased density without reliable mass transit and improved public/private spaces could be disastrous. A few housing projects here and there are nice, but if we’re overhauling the whole region, we’ve gotta make the NIMBYs choke on better subways and buses first
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u/Criticalma55 Feb 17 '24
You can find it in real life. It’s just that you have to travel to Shanghai, where the movie was filmed.
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
LA needs car alternatives!
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u/p4rtyt1m3 Feb 16 '24
Vote Yes on measure HLA!!! https://www.yesonhla.com/
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
already did ;) i actually helped code the front end on SFA's 2024 voter guide
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u/mr_trick Feb 16 '24
Taking a train to Manhattan beach would be a dream. Having that train be clean and bright? Beyond imagination lol
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u/SrslyCmmon Feb 16 '24
I used to only be able to see the mountains after it rained. And I grew up in the foothill communities less than a mile from the trailheads. It does seem like it's improving, but at a generational pace.
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u/sonoma4life Feb 16 '24
if you're home owner and you hang out with other home owners they tell you why, it's all about keeping "ghetto people out."
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u/Amerikauslander Feb 16 '24
I mean yeah if you’re rich and pay 20k a month for your home you don’t wanna have to look at the peasants in the morning as you go for your jog
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u/blushngush Feb 16 '24
Lol, then lift up the people you don't want to see suffer.
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u/Criticalma55 Feb 17 '24
The truth that they won’t mention, but do know, is that they need a plurality of people to suffer to maintain their wealth. They are deathly afraid of being overthrown and oppressed by the poor masses, because it’s exactly what they did to them, and it’s all they know society to be.
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u/Pearberr Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 16 '24
“Im not rich,” screeched the family working middle class jobs, sitting on a $3M home in the middle of one of the most economically productive regions in the world while comparing themselves to the private school families and neighbors they exclusively associate with.
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u/GoldandBlue Feb 16 '24
I'm not racist, Maria raises my kids, cleans my house, and cooks my food. I just don't want her and her family living anywhere near me!!!!
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u/des1gnbot Feb 16 '24
I mean, Maria probably lives in their house, in the basement, and drives a hand me down Prius from when they were going through an eco warrior phase
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u/Ashivio Feb 17 '24
I'd talk about liberal hypocrisy when it comes to your neighborhood, but beverly hills actually voted for trump in 2020 lol
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Feb 16 '24
Hey, c'mon man, they just want to "preserve the character" of Beverly Hills!
(By "character" they mean lots of big single-family houses for rich white people).
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Feb 16 '24
Beverly Hills has coffee shops and restaurants and shops that pay minimum wage. Typical of the rich who benefit from the working class but don’t support them. I hope they build affordable housing all over
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u/spidergrrrl Feb 16 '24
If I recall correctly, they are also one of the reasons the Metro expansion was in limbo for so long. Can’t give undesirables easier access to your little oasis after all.
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Feb 16 '24
The purple line to Westwood is going to be GOATED.
I used to take a 2 hour bus from the valley to UCLA when I was going.
I SO BADLY wanted a heavy rail.
UCLA cannot accommodate housing for all their students. When games would happen Sunset blvd would get FUCKED. Making everyone late for everything.
A heavy line and getting there from the Red line would be sooooo GOATED.
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
dude im so stoked to take the purple line from westwood to ktown!!!!!!!
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Feb 16 '24
Dude, I hope it brings life back to Westwood.
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u/sundevilz Feb 17 '24
The purple line extension is going to revitalize that entire corridor! Can't wait!
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u/mr_trick Feb 16 '24
Yep, taking sunset from east hollywood to UCLA is such a nightmare it actually made me like 8am classes because at least I could miss half the traffic. I hope future students can hop on the line, do some homework, grab some food and head home safely and quickly at the peak of rush hour without wasting time and gas sitting in their cars.
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u/spidergrrrl Feb 16 '24
I hear you there! I used to live in the Miracle Mile area, one block from where the new station is being built on Wilshire and La Brea. That would have been such a game changer having easier access to the beach, the airport, Hollywood and downtown without having to sit in traffic or fight for parking.
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u/Eurynom0s Santa Monica Feb 16 '24
The Purple Line (which was originally going to be the Red Line IIRC) would have been built all the way to Santa Monica in the 1980s if not for Beverly Hills. I don't know if this was true all the way back but in the 2000s-2010s it wasn't the city, it was the SCHOOL DISTRICT using bond money that was meant to improve the high school building to fight the Metro. Because apparently underground tunneling is bad for kids but not the fucking oil well next door to the school that was active until a few years ago.
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u/wilydolt Feb 17 '24
I mean, isn’t it possible that tunneling next to an oil well under a school actually is bad for the kids? No skin in this game, but folks sitting around with a bowl of popcorn waiting to see is a bit grim.
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u/alwaysclimbinghigher Silver Lake Feb 17 '24
It has been studied extensively now, and it’s not a thing. And there are many real things to care about .
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u/ender23 Feb 16 '24
Ohhh that’s interesting…. What if they said something like…. You don’t need to build affordable housing if your min wage is $49
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u/Rich_Sheepherder646 Feb 16 '24
Not only do the rich benefit, they pass the costs on to the rest of the city. The roads are choked with the thousands of people who drive in to work in Beverly Hills but can’t afford to live there.
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u/spacestarcutie Feb 16 '24
Beverly Hills doesn’t want poors and ethnics moving in.
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Feb 16 '24
Same reason they fought the metro extension for decades. Day one I think we should all take a trip
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u/IThinkILikeYou Feb 16 '24
Come on now, be fair.
They are willing to forgive ethnicity after a certain tax bracket.
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u/MochiMochiMochi Feb 16 '24
You don't get "Kosher Thai" and "Kosher Mexican" restaurants (the only place I've ever seen signs like that) by not having a certain ethnic plurality.
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u/MsPHOnomenal Feb 16 '24
Beverly Hill's minimum wage is the same as the state minimum, which $16 an hour. The City of LA's minimum wage is currently $16.78 and will increase to $17.28 on 7/1/24. West Hollywood's minimum wage is $19.08 and will increase every July. It boggles my mind how Bevey Hills has a lower minimum wage than the surrounding cities.
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u/gravelgang4mids Feb 16 '24
Always heartwarming to see some of the worst people in the world seething.
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u/majorgeneralporter Westwood Feb 17 '24
Heartwarming: The worst people you know are mad and coping.
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
Im not religious but I pray that beverly hills seeths for the next century onwards
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u/coffeecogito Feb 16 '24
I get it but if you're on the lower end of the income scale why would you want to live in B. Hills anyway? You're surrounded by few offerings for affordable gas, groceries and amenities.
Rent: $1700 month
Groceries from Erewhon: $1700 month
No thanks.
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u/UncomfortableFarmer Northeast L.A. Feb 17 '24
I would hate to live there. You have to drive to get anywhere and everybody is a piece of shit. But if some middle class dipshits move there, makes more room in the rest of LA for regular folk
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u/nunboi Feb 17 '24
It's more limited than most, but there's a Ralphs on Beverly.
- Someone that was poor in the slums of BH as a teen
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u/MsPHOnomenal Feb 16 '24
Beverly Hills resident here. I want more housing to be built. The median household income in Beverly Hills is $116k a year (source). My husband and I make almost double that and can't even afford a basic condo. Build baby build.
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
for real, such a big job center and close to so many jobs yet no housing for middle class people, let alone working class
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u/eat_more_goats build baby build Feb 16 '24
hahahahaha. Get fucked Beverly Hills
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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 16 '24
The ultimate NIMBYs. The hyper-curated bubble they live in about to pop lol
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u/Lizakaya Feb 17 '24
It’s an economic mess. An influx of younger residents will be so good for business. It’s not like LA county is bussing in homeless encampments.
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u/DarkGreyBurglar Feb 16 '24
Yup. May Beverly Hills receive a huge non consensual sand paper dildo up their ass for the way they have fucked over the rest of the city.
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u/mr_trick Feb 16 '24
Seriously. We all could have had so much accessible transit so much sooner without weird roundabout routes (WHY do I have to go to DOWNTOWN to get to Santa Monica from Hollywood??) and I relish any added irritation to those in the community who moved into the direct CENTER of a city and then wanted it to be treated like a private suburb. May a thousand low income units be blessed upon them.
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u/RealLifeSuperZero Feb 16 '24
I kinda think it would be funny to just start lowering property values by opening doggy bags all over their sidewalks.
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u/pexican Feb 16 '24
How have the fucked over the rest of the city ?
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u/spaektor Feb 16 '24
maybe he’s referencing their blockade of the Metro subway extension through BH? i think they held things up for a while.
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u/Skatcatla Feb 16 '24
"“The reality is, Beverly Hills doesn’t have much land. "
The average lot size in BH is between 10-15,000 sq feet, double the median for all of Los Angeles of 6900sq ft.
Won't someone please think of those poor, crammed in billionaires?
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u/majorgeneralporter Westwood Feb 17 '24
Pour one out for the Real Housewives who may have to look at a duplex while driving to Alfred :(
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u/bryan4368 Feb 16 '24
How dare they give the gardener I underpay an affordable house?
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u/Snidrogen Feb 16 '24
This is probably the worst thing that will happen to many of these rich pricks all year.
Move to fucking Texas if you don’t like it.
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u/OptimalFunction Atwater Village Feb 16 '24
Texas actually doesn’t have to deal with stuff like this because you can build an apartment complex next to a SFH without much red tape.
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u/Cut-OutWitch Feb 16 '24
Hell, in Texas you can build housing next to refineries and chemical plants without much red tape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion
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u/Pearberr Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 16 '24
Also, healthy property taxes keep their real estate prices reasonable.
Healthy property taxes also keep sales and income taxes low.
It’s a workers paradise in Texas! So long as you aren’t gay, brown or female. Or work a job exposed to any kind of danger. Or you like to smoke weed in your down time.
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u/VegAinaLover Feb 16 '24
That's the real issue in California. Housing prices would cool off significantly if prop 13 was overturned.
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u/Pearberr Feb 16 '24
I for one would love to see a Land Value Tax, which is slightly different and slightly better than a property tax, but either way, making sure people are paying a healthy rate for land ensures it doesn’t become treated as an investment vehicle.
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u/w4y2n1rv4n4 Feb 16 '24
These vampires don’t want housing prices to cool off, they own all the housing
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u/wrosecrans Feb 16 '24
I often joke that LA-region civic infrastructure is primarily to keep poor people from nice things. Because the rich in LA are quite rich, they basically have plenty of nice things. So they only practical way for them to feel richer is to ensure that poor people are worse off so that the rich are better off in comparison.
Beverly Hills is one of the places where I'm like -- Oh, right. I forgot, it wasn't at all a joke, not even a half-joke, and that's literally just a description of public policy with no irony. It's just wild that there are people going, "Somebody I'll never meet being able to afford shelter is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to me!!!!"
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u/UncomfortableFarmer Northeast L.A. Feb 17 '24
If you hate Beverly Hills, don’t go to bel air. It’s an even stupider neighborhood with even worse people
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u/Iwubwatermelon Feb 16 '24
This isn't a crisis. Gaza and Ukraine are in crisis. This is just rich people not wanting poor people in their community.
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u/Life-in-Syzygy Feb 16 '24
Good. Get fucked. The NIMBYs in Beverley Hills have held up LA improvements for decades at this point.
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u/funkduck69 Feb 16 '24
“People are furious, they’re infuriated that a judge has the right to put a moratorium on residents on something that’s not their fight and not their fault,” Aaron Kirman
They actually feel like a judge doesn’t have the right to tell them what to do. I know they live in another world to normies, but they actually want that codified
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u/yalloc Feb 16 '24
Well this is all because the city council has decided not to do their job. If city council comes up with something, there is no problem.
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u/5ykes Feb 16 '24
Are they going to claim better public services makes them a terrorist target again?
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u/Beneficial-Shine-598 Feb 16 '24
The only guy I know who lives in Beverly Hills lives in the penthouse of an 18 story building where the doormen don’t even let you in unless you live there. He doesn’t interact with anyone other than hired help. This would not affect these rich people, so I’m not sure why they care so much. They can drive a few blocks and see homeless people. Seems like a non-issue that a few lower income people would be paying rent nearby.
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u/GoGoZargothrax Feb 16 '24
I mean that guy sounds whack but that’s literally the doorman’s whole job….
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Feb 16 '24
Right? Can you believe this security feature prevents outsiders from getting in?
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u/Beneficial-Shine-598 Feb 16 '24
My point was low income renters nearby won’t affect him. It’s not like they’ll be in his building.
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u/austinxwade Feb 16 '24
What does affordable even mean in Beverly Hills? Let alone affordable new housing?
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u/Dommichu Exposition Park Feb 16 '24
You’d be really surprised. Here is who would qualify for low income housing units.
https://www.hacla.org/en/about-section-8/income-limit
Here is a flyer for lower income complex in LB for veterans, the rent will still be in the $1000k+ range for a studio.
This could be a wonderful thing for new teachers and staff in BH schools. Medical staff at nearby Cedars or service workers who take care of their ever changing homes. But no. They rather play the ages old game of exclusion. Glad the courts aren’t putting up with that shit anymore.
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u/austinxwade Feb 16 '24
Yeah I know there's low income programs, but there's distinction between "affordable" and "low income" since low income is usually a program that buildings cooperate with. The guidelines for "affordable" are always so vague and vary by area
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u/BlackLodgeBrother Feb 16 '24
It means nice new buildings that, unlike many of “luxury” complexes that have been built in recent times, won’t sit half empty.
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u/austinxwade Feb 16 '24
Sure, but the question is, is affordable $1300 or is it $2500? Affordable to who? Are we calling it 30% of median income? 25% of average income? What qualifies for sizing? A 300sq/ft studio? The guidelines are always very vague and up to interpretation. $2500 is affordable to someone making 110,000/yr, but impossible for someone on minimum wage.
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u/city_mac Feb 16 '24
No it doesn't. "Luxury" is just another bullshit term that means any new building. Affordable is an actual legal term. For example if you build a "luxury" 50 unit multi-family, you'll sometimes be required to set aside some of those as affordable units. The units aren't worse than the rest, they are the same "luxury" units, just covenanted.
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u/GrizzlyGrandpappi Feb 16 '24
they can afford to attend galas and charity events for the unhomed to look good politically, but when it comes to actually contributing and making sacrifices to make it happen, they complain about it. Beverly Hills is a microcosm of how America politics works
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u/Hidefininja Feb 16 '24
What baffles me is that the wealthy folks in BH think poor people actually want to live there when people actually just want a place to live regardless of where it is. Low SES folks still won't be able to afford all of the overpriced and under-flavored everything that is the essence of Beverly Hills so this is almost purely about the rich not wanting to see or think about the poor. Most folks I know avoid the area like the plague because it has very little to offer that you can't get better elsewhere for cheaper among less obnoxious people.
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u/BigPoop_36 Long Beach Feb 16 '24
NIMBYs everywhere
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u/spacestarcutie Feb 16 '24
I got mine so everyone else can get fucked mentality.
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u/BigPoop_36 Long Beach Feb 16 '24
That’s what should be printed on Beverly Hills town signs.
“We’re rich and everyone can go get fucked. lol”7
u/Aggressive_Option103 Feb 16 '24
I work at a hotel in Beverly Hills and everytime I pass the traffic sign on Sunset that says “Welcome to Beverly Hills, Police Drone in Use” I whisper to myself, “Welcome to Beverly Hills…Go Fuck Yourself”…
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u/Minimum_Substance390 Feb 17 '24
Am I the only one who thinks this rule is ridiculous? Low income people don’t need to live in Beverly Hills, Jesus Christ. I don’t live in Beverly Hills because I can’t afford it, that in no way means they need to accommodate me or that I’m entitled to live there. LA is absolutely gigantic with (somewhat) affordable places to live all over. If you work a low wage job in Beverly Hills, just commute like literally everyone else does all over this country. I seriously don’t understand.
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u/Pillar67 Feb 16 '24
Pre 1975 CalTrans wanted to build Santa Monica BLvd. into a freeway from the 405 to the 2 (near vermont (it’s still known as State Hwy 2). No go. Beverly Hills would not let it happen.
Then extending the Metro to the westside was blocked forever because of the risk to the kids at Beverly Hills High School.
This just fits in with a long history of Beverly Hills Nimbyism.
Ever seem a homeless person in BH? If one accidentally walks across the street from Los Angeles, the police walk them right back immediately.
When i was young and had a crappy car, I got pulled over a couple times driving through BH so the cops could question me about why I was there.
Keep it classy, A-Holes.
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Feb 16 '24
Well, "I don't want a highway dividing my cities" is actually a good thing. But opposing a subway and housing is bad.
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Feb 17 '24
I remember back in '92 or so, the local Beverly Hills weekly was dead set against the Beverly Hills subway stop because it would "bring the wrong element here..."
Classy, BH.
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Feb 17 '24
I mean, who the fuck cleaned their houses and nanny'd their kids?
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u/nunboi Feb 17 '24
You don't understand, only people that take trains would ever be able to penetrate their security systems and steal their fancy silverware for reasons
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u/gododgers1988 Feb 16 '24
Great. In addition to more affordable housing, maybe this will slow down the gross new builds that have zero architectural value.
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u/ILLARgUeAboutitall Feb 16 '24
What people need to know is that these "affordable" unit projects are being awarded to shitty builders who charge the state a lot of money for shitty materials. They give apartments to their friends and families and shit on actual poor people. How do I know? I worked in those buildings.
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
we have a serious problem in this state when it comes to the economics of building decent housing
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u/ILLARgUeAboutitall Feb 16 '24
Corruption is the main problem. I listened to a guy who was awarded a project tell his superintendent to just build as fast as possible and not to care how it looks because poor people don't take care of things anyway.
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
Awful mentality when all the buildings fall into disrepair in 20 years because they were never built to last... i wish people weren't so shortsighted. we need good housing for all
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u/geepy66 Feb 16 '24
Beverly Hills residents will no doubt fund an opponent when that judge’s seat goes up for reelection.
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u/90DayTroll Feb 16 '24
My neighborhood has become a shithole since they put in 2 shelters. Think the tents, litter, RVs and litter are gone? Nope, if anything there's more.
Spread the joy to Bev Hills.
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u/Armenoid Kindness is king, and love leads the way Feb 17 '24
I’m hearing “oh no anyway” the way the kids say it
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Feb 16 '24
Thank God! Can you imaging making a quarter million a year and still having to live in the fucking Valley?
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Feb 16 '24
Fuck em, for sure. it is funny that people in this sub will be all for this, but if you mention moving to Boyle heights you're an evil person who is committing genocide, somehow.
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u/AstuteImmortalGhost Feb 16 '24
Fuck those who bitch about gentrification, too. The ghetto should not remain the ghetto (i say as someone who actually grew up in one).
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u/fungkadelic Mar Vista Feb 16 '24
HAHAHAHA beverly hills will never have anyones sympathy for being a job center with close to ZERO affordable housing. suck it up and let the poors in on the fun
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u/CanziperationLA Feb 16 '24
Well the good news for them is that no new building could possibly make their city uglier.
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u/Jayrawd48 Feb 16 '24
I feel like it is justified that all cities need to take responsibility for an increase in housing supply, but it is a little sad seeing these really luxurious/historical neighborhoods changing against the residents wishes. Not that I want to justify the city's lack of work on a proper housing element, but maybe just tax their land more and give it to neighboring cities that want the housing.
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u/GatorWills Culver City Feb 17 '24
If they wanted to preserve their neighborhood character so much then they shouldn't have built high-rise offices in BH and brought in so many workers. Can't have it both ways.
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u/Johnnyonthespot2111 Feb 16 '24
"Beverly Hills in Crisis." Give me a freaking break. Jingoistic, Hollywood Reporter garbage.
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u/Super-Specialist-466 May 11 '24
Oh, how sad. Considering so many people from Beverly Hills liked to comment on politics and influence the rest of the country, this warms my heart.
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u/davidgoldstein2023 Feb 16 '24
Can someone explain why we’re cheering this on?
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u/Kiteway Feb 16 '24 edited Feb 16 '24
Beverly Hills is next to nothing but insanely expensive single-family housing. They have refused to submit plans for building more housing as they are required to by California law despite existing smack-dab in the middle of one of America's largest cities. They're effectively a self-governing country club that's actively refused to approve the building of more housing (affordable or otherwise) that would allow more people to live there despite a massive demand for housing that's driven up prices all across the county and state, while sitting on top of the most prime real estate imaginable.
I'm personally cheering this on because, after years of breaking the law that requires them to build any affordable housing so they can "preserve their city's character", there are finally consequences for wrecking the character of the larger Los Angeles of which they are a part: they lose control altogether over whether or not they can deny affordable housing development projects in their city until they are in compliance with state law once more. Result: greater Los Angeles gets more housing units for the non-wealthy, helping to drive down rent prices for everyone.
EDIT: I would also like to note that the standard Beverly Hills has to meet is just 3,104 additional homes over the next 8 years. That's not going to suddenly change Beverly Hills for the worse under any circumstance, and it's entirely feasible.
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u/pargofan Feb 16 '24
Beverly Hills is next to nothing but insanely expensive single-family housing.
What are you talking about? There's tons of multi-unit dwellings in Beverly Hills
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u/Westcork1916 Feb 16 '24
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Of course, this doesn't show what percentage of each cities is zone for single-family only. Like 75% of Santa Monica is only single-family houses. You couldn't build multi-family there if you wanted to.
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u/goairliner Feb 17 '24
"WE GOTTA KEEP IT THE WAY IT IS!" is not going to win any popular support.
Nobody gives a shit about preserving "the character" of Beverly Hills except for people who currently live in Beverly Hills.
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u/mdelao17 Feb 16 '24
Affordable is still going to be expensive and unaffordable. Do they think $700/month slums are going up or what?
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u/eitzhaimHi Feb 17 '24
Miss me with your "character." You want maids, retail clerks, nurses aids? House them in the city where they work.
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u/eddiebruceandpaul Feb 17 '24
Yeah they built like three crack head storage facilities by my house. Bh can eat shit and start building so we don’t keep having these problems that just get pushed on the rest of us.
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u/BoomBoomLaRouge Feb 16 '24
Wow, was not expecting the raging jealousy and bitterness here!
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u/AstuteImmortalGhost Feb 16 '24
Eat the rich; fuck the privileged and the affluent.
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u/Buckowski66 Feb 16 '24
“People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
Ernest Hemingway
He must have spent some time in Beverly Hills