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Committee approves streamlined 'managed pipeline' to speed affordable housing approvals
Summary
The committee adopted a Los Angeles Housing Department plan to simplify the city's "managed pipeline" for affordable housing, authorizing LAHD to make administrative project changes without repeated council approvals and asking the city attorney to review administrative-code limits on delegations.
The Los Angeles City Council Housing and Homelessness Committee voted to adopt a revised affordable-housing "managed pipeline" process on March 3, a set of changes Los Angeles Housing Department staff said would shorten delays in bringing affordable and permanent-supportive housing projects from award to construction.
LAHD Director of Development and Finance Elizabeth Selby told the committee the managed pipeline pools multiple sources of city, state and federal funds and that returning to council for repeated administrative changes can add months to a project's schedule. The department proposed a streamlined process that would keep major competitive criteria under council oversight but allow LAHD to approve…
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