Developer’s Challenge to Affordable Housing Could Hamper Citywide Policy

Developer’s Challenge to Affordable Housing Could Hamper Citywide Policy

Michael Rawson, co-director of the nonprofit Public Interest Law Project, recently filed a brief in the Palmer case on behalf of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now and the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing, supporting the city.

“If you read the history of Costa-Hawkins,” said Rawson, “it wasn’t intended to apply to inclusionary zoning. While the development community tries to glom onto it, I think it’s a red herring.”

Read the full article by Anna Scott in Downtown Los Angeles here.