Back to: Address potential adverse impacts to housing affordability and people experiencing homelessness.
Action: Secure funding for affordable housing in parallel with funding for river projects.
With the understanding that housing affordability is a priority concern throughout LA County, it is imperative that, in conjunction with the results of a housing impact assessment, any projected adverse effects on housing affordability caused by a planned river project be mitigated in lock step with the project’s progression.
Waiting until a project is in progress or complete to address housing affordability would mean confronting an exacerbated problem, which is likely to be even more costly in the long term. Funding for housing should be made available up front, when steps can still be taken to preserve affordability.
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Displacement Risk in LA County. In some areas, if rents were to start to increase faster than they are across the county as a whole, the risk of displacement would increase. These areas are marked as “rent tipping points.”
Map developed based on research by the Urban Displacement Project: Chapple, K., Loukaitou-Sideris, A., Waddell, P., Chatman, D., & Ong, P. (2017). Developing a New Methodology for Analyzing Potential Displacement.