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Build Better LA: How will LA grow up?
As rent prices continues to rise in LA, Measure JJJ , or the "Build Better LA" initiative, seeks to carve out some space for lower-income Angelenos. It would require so-called mega-developers to set aside as much as one-fifth of their new units for affordable housing. It would also require them to hire local, union labor to build these projects.
By Steve Chiotakis • • 1 min readAs rent prices continues to rise in LA, Measure JJJ, or the "Build Better LA" initiative, seeks to carve out some space for lower-income Angelenos. It would require so-called mega-developers to set aside as much as one-fifth of their new units for affordable housing. It would also require them to hire local, union labor to build these projects. Developers oppose the measure, arguing it does not solve the city's larger problem: a lack of housing, period.
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The full episode
3 of 10KCRW special election preview- 1:27Death Penalty: Speed it up or throw it out?
- 7:56Proposition HHH: New taxes to fund homeless housing
- 12:52Build Better LA: How will LA grow up?You’re reading this
- 18:44Measure M could drive LA transportation for the next 4 decades
- 24:13US Senate: Democrats Harris, Sanchez try to distinguish themselves
- 29:02Measure LV: Santa Monica, the epicenter of anti-development
- 33:24Proposition 58: Should education always begin with English?
- 40:25Big money flows into California ballot initiatives
- 46:56Proposition 64: Legal pot gets another shot
- 51:24Ballot breakdown: the influence of passing propositions