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City planning staff: housing production up from a decade ago but permits lag completions
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City Planning presented the annual housing element progress report on June 1, saying production is higher than a decade ago but permitting and completions must accelerate to meet the element’s multi‑year goals.
City Planning staff presented the city’s annual housing‑element progress report to the Los Angeles City Council committee on Homelessness and Housing on June 1, saying the city has increased housing production compared with a decade ago but must accelerate permitting and completions to meet long‑term targets.
Planner Mac Lensleeve (City Planning) told the committee that the recently adopted housing element requires a nine‑year production goal that amounts to hundreds of thousands of units; staff said the practical production target requires roughly 50,000 units per year to reach a 456,000‑unit goal and that current annual completions average closer to 23,000 units. "We have to be building two or three times the amount of units we’re building to reach those goals," Lensleeve said.
Staff walked the…
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