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Pasadena Star News, January 21, 2021
Article includes mention of our housing coalition's community forum on Pasadena's Housing Element on January 23. https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2021/01/20/pasadena-reckons-with-unachievable-rhna-housing-goals-after-appeal-rejection/
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Colorado Boulevard.net, January 16, 2021
All Pasadena affordable housing advocates are invited to attend a community forum to discuss the updating of Pasadena's Housing Element. The program titled, “Planning Just and Fair Housing Solutions for our City” is scheduled to take place via Zoom on Saturday, January 23, 2021, 3:00 – 4:30 pm (click to register). The updated Housing element must be submitted by the City to the State by October 2021. It will guide the provisioning of housing in the City until 2028. “The Housing Element is a powerful tool to solicit community input in planning for sufficient housing for all income levels for the next eight years,” said Jill Shook, Executive Director of MHCH. The Pasadena Affordable Housing Coalition, is organized by Pasadenans Organizing for Progress (POP), Making Housing and Community Happen (MHCH) and Abundant Housing LA (AHLA). “We have a golden opportunity to participate in shaping this policy,” Shook continued. Pasadena Now | January 18, 2021 Several local housing organizations will discuss the city’s housing element from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday during the Zoom meeting titled “Planning Just and Fair Housing Solutions for our City.” The Pasadena Affordable Housing Coalition, organized by Pasadenans Organizing for Progress (POP), Making Housing and Community Happen (MHCH), and Abundant Housing L.A. (AHLA), is calling for all Pasadena affordable housing advocates to attend the community forum to discuss the city’s housing element. Interested in attending the Zoom Community Forum?
The Pasadena Affordable Housing Coalition, organized by Pasadenans Organizing for Progress (POP), Making Housing and Community Happen (MHCH) and Abundant Housing LA (AHLA) is calling for all Pasadena affordable housing advocates to attend a community forum to discussthe updating of Pasadena’s Housing Element.
The community forum will cover the process of updating Pasadena's 2021 Housing Element. The program titled, “Planning Just and Fair Housing Solutions for our City” is scheduled to take place via Zoom on Saturday, January 23, 2021, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
POP’s Housing Justice Committee meets regularly to promote affordable housing in our community. We recently supported the successful push to use the lot across from City Hall (which has been used as a parking lot for nearly 100 years!) as a site for 112 apartments for low-income seniors. Rents will be set to achieve an average affordability of 50 percent of the area median income, with 10 percent of the apartment homes set-aside for permanent supportive housing for previously homeless seniors.
"National CORE secures development rights for City-owned property", Urbanize Los Angeles, October 27, 2020 "Talks with Developer For Affordable Housing Near City Hall Get Council Approval", Pasadena Now, Ocotber 20, 2020 POP is focusing it efforts on the upcoming Housing Element that must be developed by October of 2021 by the City to meet the Regional Housing Needs Assessment target for Pasadena of 9,409 units to be built by 2029. More than 60% of those units should be affordable to very low, low and moderate income households. The City will soon be considering Councilmember John Kennedy’s proposal to develop incentives to ensure the construction of 1,000 units of affordable housing in the next three years. POP will be organizing the community to support the proposal as a first step to meeting the larger target. Pasadena, where 57% of the population live in rental housing, faces critical decisions to protect low income residents and people of color from displacement, overcrowding and homelessness. The depth and urgency of the current crisis is real. The imperfect annual count of homelessness in Los Angeles County estimated 66,000 unhoused residents just prior to the onset of the pandemic. Half the tenants in our County are “rent-burdenend” – defined as spending more than 30% of their incomes on rent. Nearly a third pay over half their income. POP regularly works in coalition with other Pasadena area affordable housing advocates. Join in and work with us to help Pasadena meet the long-delayed promise of Truman’s Fair Deal spelled out in the historic Housing Act of 1949: "... the realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family, thus contributing to the development and redevelopment of communities and to the advancement of the growth, wealth, and security of the Nation." BY EDDIE RIVERA | PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES CARBONE
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