School test scores. If you live in a wealthy neighborhood where only the poor people send their kids to public school, it's going to show up as lower resourced on the TCAC map.

Am I seeing it right that apartments 405 and 407 have no windows at all?

I'm not crazy about this design without two curb ramps per corner. The circle looks like it's about 10' wide. With a 30' street, that gives cars 10' on either side to go around it - the width of a standard car lane. The diagonal curb ramps basically deposit people directly into that lane.

Thanks for the great writeup.

Really cool! Thank you for digging this up.

Excited to read it!

My biggest worry is that neighborhoods that get deferred for 5 years will use that time to lobby the state legislature to exempt them permanently (looking at you, historic districts). The next few months' debate may end up shaping LA's SB 79 map for keeps. 1 million potential new homes are at stake.

The ED 1 saga has been exhausting. Do you know if Nithya's CHIP cleanup motion has the potential to give AHIP what it needs to finally put ED 1 out of its misery?

Last night we went to Ramen Jinya in the Cumulus development. The kids loved playing hide and seek in the big open space.

Too culturally conservative/conformist. Easier to do your own thing in LA.

In LA, probably the fastest-growing type of household is roommates in multi-bedroom apartments. Hence the popularity of developing double duplexes and other co-living buildings. Ironically, LA has started incentivizing larger bedroom units, but they'll likely be occupied by roommates, not families.

The difference is actually even greater, because the census is tracking the total change in the number of home addresses, which captures demolitions. HCD only tracks homes built, not homes lost.

(BTW, the map uses July-July data. I used Nov-Nov to more closely mirror HCD).

Also, shame on Lindsey Horvath for not defending these important projects, which would have gotten 49 mentally ill homeless folks off the street and receiving services THIS MONTH. But no, what we really need is more "robust community engagement".

More broadly, why is there a renter lookback on SFH when they have no rent control or SB 330 demolition control? The point of lookbacks in bills is to prevent the bills leading to eviction, but that doesn't apply here.

Often hard to prove no renters were in an SFH in the last 5 years. Owner forgot to take the homeowners exemption on property tax. Multiple owners. Owner deceased. LAHD requires "copies of the owner's car registration, homeowner's insurance, or other LAHD approved third-party documents.” It's nuts.

Proof of owner occupancy for single family homes.

More broadly, applying tenant lookbacks to single family homes is bizarre considering they aren't subject to rent control or SB 330 demolition protections. Unfortunately SB 9 got a lookback and so it's just become the default for the leg to throw them in bills that apply to SFH.

Ah right! Forgot about that. I've been thinking about this issue lately vis-a-vis SB 1123, where devs are having trouble proving no tenants when trying to redevelop vacant single family homes. (SB 684/1123 have a 5 year lookback.) LA has been requiring crazy paperwork as proof. We need standards.

Thanks for all this, Chris! The legislature will also have to address standards for proving 7 years of owner-occupancy of single family homes, which can be quite hard to do (e.g. if the home sold in the last 7 years). Crucial to figure out if we want a bunch of SFH's replaced by SB 79 projects.