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Councilmember Rodriguez says emergency order has not increased housing production; votes no on quarterly report
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Councilmember Monica Rodriguez criticized the city's homelessness emergency order (ED1), arguing it has not increased housing production and urging a departmental analysis; she cast a dissenting vote on the quarterly report as the council recorded five ayes and one no.
Councilmember Monica Rodriguez (Seventh District) criticized Los Angeles's homelessness emergency order and voted against the mayor's quarterly report on its outcomes during the City Council meeting on Wednesday.
Rodriguez said the emergency declaration has not improved the city's ability to construct housing and that structural barriers remain. "Declaring it an emergency hasn't resolved in any expedited fashion what is at the root of some of the challenges that we face as a city," she said, adding that the city's housing shortfall "has grown by 5%." She urged a comprehensive departmental analysis of the emergency order's actual…
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