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Committee backs LHD pipeline changes to speed affordable housing approvals; legal threshold for delegated authority flagged
Summary
The committee approved a staff recommendation to streamline the city's affordable-housing pipeline and delegate specified administrative approvals to the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), while asking the City Attorney to review administrative-code limits on multi-year loan agreements and confirm delegation thresholds.
The Housing and Homelessness Committee on March 19 approved staff recommendations to streamline the city’s affordable-housing pipeline and delegate specific administrative approvals to the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), aiming to shorten project timelines and reduce repeated returns to the council for technical changes.
What the proposal does
LAHD staff presented a plan to reduce the number of times projects must return to council during predevelopment and financing by: authorizing certain technical changes and adjustments at the department level; creating program-level NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability) approval pathways so multiple projects can be awarded under a program without separate council action for each minor…
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