Jan. 30, 2026 9:07 AM PT
To the editor: Visitor contributor Jesse Zwick says L.A. officers gained’t decide to extra housing (“Los Angeles is sabotaging itself on housing,” Jan. 27). In actual fact, town labored carefully with the neighborhood and already submitted a thoughtful plan with sufficient housing to fulfill California state legislation.
Zwick, nevertheless, favors SB 79. This one-size-fits-none invoice wipes out native zoning. As an alternative of including density on present corridors with enough capability to fulfill the necessity, SB 79 crams large residences into low-density and single-family zones throughout town. It targets all neighborhoods inside a half-mile radius of present and “future” transit stops — stops that may be designated at will.
SB 79 does little or no for reasonably priced housing and nothing in any way to improve water, energy, roads and emergency providers.
Defenders say builders gained’t truly use the complete extent of SB 79 entitlements. Perhaps so, however let’s not hand them an enormous test after which pray they gained’t money it.
Danielle Peters and Shelley Wagers, Los Angeles
These writers are officers with the Beverly Grove Neighborhood Assn., a neighborhood advocacy nonprofit.
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To the editor: One purpose we’ve got a scarcity of housing is that individuals who have common incomes with the cash to take a position can’t purchase or construct small, two-to-six-unit house buildings, as they did within the Nineteen Fifties by means of the Eighties. They put their retirement cash in shares as a result of that’s the approach 401(ok)s and IRAs are designed.
Giant funds are shopping for up most residential small items and even particular person properties. These needs to be restricted to people or not more than six homeowners for residences of six or fewer items. It won’t clear up the issue, however it will assist.
Edward Gilbert, Studio Metropolis
