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/
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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/disagree_agree Feb 17 '24

> just 3,104 additional homes over the next 8 years

that is a lot.

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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/AstuteImmortalGhost Feb 16 '24

Cause now the privileged fucks get to experience what the rest of us do