SUBJECT: Which units, Councilmember Park?
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Dear Councilmember Park,
At this week’s City Council meeting, you claimed that “9,300 housing units,” including nearly 2,000 affordable homes, have been “advanced” in Council District 11 since you took office. Yet you have provided no evidence to back up this claim.
Which projects? Where are they located? Who built them? How many are actually affordable, and how many predate your tenure?
Los Angeles residents deserve transparency, not talking points. Nearly all of the affordable housing now being built on the Westside was approved or initiated before you took office, or is moving forward despite your opposition to the very laws and programs that made those developments possible.
You have repeatedly opposed key pro-housing measures, including Executive Directive 1, the Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program, and state streamlining laws like SB 35 and SB 79. These are the same policies that have enabled the construction of nearly all new affordable units in your district.
At the same time, you continue to block the fully approved, shovel-ready Venice Dell project, which already has City and Coastal Commission approvals and more than 42 million dollars in state funding committed. That project would create 120 deeply affordable and supportive homes for working families and unhoused Angelenos in a high-opportunity neighborhood.
It is deeply troubling that you take credit for housing progress driven by laws you’ve opposed, while working to derail the most significant affordable housing project on the Westside in decades.
We call on you to publish a detailed list of the “thousands of units” you claim to have advanced, including their addresses, developers, affordability levels, and approval timelines, so that the public can see for themselves what is real and what is political spin.
Los Angeles deserves honesty and accountability. If you are truly committed to addressing the housing crisis, start by being transparent with your constituents.
Show us the receipts.
Which units, Councilmember Park?
