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Draft CHIP Ordinance in Committee on 9/26

The LA Planning Department just announced that the Citywide Housing Incentives Program draft ordinances will be taken up on September 26, starting around 8:30am…(zoom too!)

Our recent FYI posts

Our City’s Planning and Land Use Policy development process is complex and sometimes opaque, making it hard for Westchester-Playa stakeholders to understand what’s going on. These posts aim to improving public access to important general news and information.

2024 Housing Applications Down

The LA Planning Department produces a monthly newsletter. In it, they report housing application data, and for the first half of 2024, trends overall are declining…

Housing Trends, LA Planning

August 27, 2024

Affordable Adaptive Reuse Case

To get a sense of how much is going with LA’s new adaptive reuse program for creating new housing, one thing you can do is search “Adaptive Reuse” on Urbanize.LA.com…

Adaptive Reuse, Affordable 100%

August 27, 2024

Adaptive Reuse 101

In their August 2024 Market Report, the CommercialEdge real estate blog confirms Los Angeles is clocking in at 24-25% vacant rates. That translates to some 83 million sq feet…

Adaptive Reuse, LA CHIP

August 26, 2024

Neighbors advocating for local

housing.

Building a Better Westchester-Playa (BaBWP) is a group of neighbors advocating for local housing and land use decisions that foster racial and socio-economic diversity, environmental sustainability and community well-being.