The critical moment came when City Attorney Marsha Moutrie requested that the council make a choice:

CITY HALL —  A small wording change in a recently approved law lowering rent and income limits cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas on Santa Monica's affordable housing supply may make a big difference cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas for developers with housing projects working their way through the public process, developers say.
The City Council passed an ordinance on June 11 that would lower the amount that property owners could charge for affordable cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas units by between 20 and 25 percent, a proposal that came with the backing of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles and met little resistance from development interests.
However, a last-minute change from the dais may mean those lower limits apply to projects almost done with their development agreements that never believed they may take the extra hit on project revenues, and didn't calculate it into the costs.
The critical cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas moment came when City Attorney Marsha Moutrie requested cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas that the council make a choice: Did they want the ordinance to become effective for those development agreements that had not yet been voted on by the council, or those that had not yet been approved?
The answer was the latter, and the measure — which still must go through a second reading — could mean that projects like one recently cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas approved on Second Street may have to lower their expectations in terms of income from their development.
That development cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas had proposed eight affordable cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas units consisting of five very-low income one-bedroom units and three low-income studios which, prior to the change, could have brought in roughly $6,961 per month in rent.
In the past, Santa Monica officials based their rent levels on a benchmark income of $84,300 for a family of four. The limit used in Los Angeles is based on the area's median income, cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas or $64,800 for a family of four, said Denise McGranahan, an attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation.
Rents for low-income, very low-income and moderate households are calculated using percentages of that baseline, meaning that the higher dollar amount cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas used by Santa Monica drove up the cost of affordable housing.
That's important because the vast majority of people cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas waiting for affordable housing in Santa Monica are looking for those lower income standards. Only 1 percent cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas want moderately-priced housing, which, according to a report, is practically market rate.
Affordable housing has been a major topic of conversation in Santa Monica in recent years, particularly after the loss of the Redevelopment Agency, an entity funded by local taxes that poured millions into the creation of affordable housing in the city.
Voters also passed Proposition R in 1990, a measure that required that 30 percent of the housing built in the city meet local affordability standards for low- and moderate-income families, with at least half falling into the low-income category.
City Council members have identified that mix as problematic, largely because apartments at the moderate-income affordability limit under the old standards were almost equivalent in price to market-rate housing.
Officials hope that will be corrected by projects approved, but not completed, in the same year. The majority of affordable units in those developments qualify as low-income apartments, according to the report.
There are active building permits for 723 residences in 37 multifamily developments, 53 percent of which are affordable with 282 aimed at low- and very-low income households. It's almost impossible to predict how many of those will be ready at the end of this fiscal year, according to the report.
Affordable housing continues to be a controversial topic in the city, with some grumbling that it brings the wrong element to town, particularly cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas in the aftermath of recent shootings in the Pico Neighborhood.
"Government mandated low-income housing is an artifice to distract attention from the consequences of a failed economic model," said Wes Wellman, president of the Action cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas Apartment Association, which represents landlords locally.
"The housing produced is inconsequential relative to the demand and merely cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas serves to make lottery winners of the few who obtain it and to allow policy makers to boast of their commendable enterprises," he continued.
not only that, Brenda, but I keep spouting the same thing: Why so many LOW INCOME units in a city where it is impossible to find ANYTHING else low income (groceries, clothing, pharmacies, cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas gas, TAXES, etc)???
Everything in Santa Monica is OVERPRICED, why would anyone want to live here (except for the ones already CHEATING the government???). Far too much is financially out-of-bounds to your (average) low-income citizen, although cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas we do have many who are living off of the fat-of-the-land who are buying homes north of Wilshire for their children driving brand new cars dripping with jewelry and the finest! They don t speak English, nor will they ever bother to.
Planners cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas are wakening cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas up to the realization that entire cities are becoming gated enclaves where the one per cent network and drive national policies. Some of those planners are saying oops, sorry, we didn t realize it was happening , but others are staying quiet and hope nobody cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas notices until it is too late to stop.
This is moving chairs around the Titanic decks. Makes no difference at all. First, the City does not enforce development agreement restrictions and usually refuses to let affected people cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas do so. What is put in DAs is all more BS pretending developers are paying community benefits in return for being allowed to rape the public by putting up ugly 5-story buildings that even half-empty, give them enormous profits and allow them to pay off the Council for permitting them. Second, affordability of rents for these units is ridiculous. A studio apartment for a VERY LOW income person as the City defines it, costs over $700 a month in rent. No truly poor person can afford that, and there is less and less public reimbursement, so those apts would be empty unless developers played games renting them to relatives cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas and children of their cronies and such. Trust-fund babies all have these. Third, the income limits are outrageous, so even if people actually follow the rules, no poor people are ever going to live in these apts. A family of four can make over $60,000 a year and be called low income. The devil is in the details and the spin. The Council cheap airline specials from gulfport to vegas is bought and paid for.
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