1 David Yakobson
From: Theresa Marasco <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 12:00 PM
To: councilmtgitems; David White; Phil Brock; Lana Negrete; Christine Parra; Oscar de la Torre; Caroline Torosis; Jesse Zwick; Gleam Davis
Subject: 4-23-2024 City Council Agenda Item 10B
Attachments: Inclusionary Housing Fact Sheet.pdf
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Dear Mayor Brock, Vice Mayor Negrete, and City Council Members, This is an urgent call to slow down the process of reviewing item 10B as it will eviscerate inclusionary housing and force all low-income people into deeper segregation in the City.
This ordinance seeks to eliminate inclusionary housing, taking away HOUSING CHOICE and violates FAIR HOUSING LAWS, and is an act of deepening the discriminatory redlining practices that Santa Monica already has serious issues with. See the description below taken from the attachment to be included with my comment:
"Inclusionary housing is used in hundreds of communities across the country to create units that are affordable to lower-income households in new market-rate residential developments. More than 170 cities and counties in California have used inclusionary-housing policies to help address affordable-housing needs while advancing equitable-development goals.
Inclusionary policies capture some of the value of rising real-estate prices to provide community benefits by using local land-use controls to ensure that much needed affordable-housing units are produced along with market-rate units and that the limited supply of developable land is put to work in a way that serves households at all income levels.
Inclusionary housing – also referred to as “inclusionary zoning”– is a flexible tool that can be tailored to local circumstances. There is no one “model” inclusionary-housing policy,but rather a number of best practices to consider when adopting or amending an ordinance.
This factsheet explores the range of policy options to consider when designing a local inclusionary ordinance and highlights best practices that maximize community benefits and fulfill policy goals.
An inclusionary-housing ordinance is one part of an equitable-development strategy, and should not be viewed as the sole way to address affordable-housing needs. In most communities,building the needed amount of housing for lower-income families will still require public subsidies and must be integrated with other strategies." Item 10-B
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2 I ask that there be a full public engagement process on this ordinance. All neighborhood groups should be engaged, Boards and Commissions should have an opportunity to review it and ask important questions and make recommendations.
This ordinance was crafted in the dark by Planning Commissioners Leslie Lambert and Josh Hamilton. Josh Hamilton has a clear conflict and should not have been working on this ordinance as he works in financing 100% Affordable Housing.
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