| Created a $100 million Housing Trust Fund -- the largest in the nation – to help finance new affordable housing. The Fund has invested over $80 million to finance over 2,700 new housing units. It has also helped the city win an additional $374 million in county, state and federal funds. |
| Expanded the adaptive reuse ordinance, which is helping to adapt vacant buildings into thousands of quality housing units. Examples of adaptive reuse projects include the Historic Gas Company Lofts project in Downtown and the Wilshire at Western project at the site of the former Getty Oil Headquarters. |
| Stepped-up efforts to crackdown on slumlords by tripling the number of inspections conducted by the Systematic Code Enforcement Program, which proactively inspects rental housing in Los Angeles rather than only providing inspections upon request of the tenant. As City Attorney, Jim Hahn pioneered the concept of slumlords being sentenced to live under electronically monitored house arrest in their own slum buildings. |
| Created the Maximizing Our Real Estate (MORE) program, which is helping the city to identify its unused properties that could be used for housing. |
| Providing financial and technical assistance to help working families buy homes through a partnership with Countrywide Home Loans, Fannie Mae, and the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust “HIT HOME.” |
| Helping low- and moderate-income first-time homebuyers through a partnership with the California Housing Finance Agency and the Southern California Home Financing Authority.
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| Strongly supports the Marlton Square project in South Los Angeles’ Crenshaw District, which will bring single-family homes, affordable housing for seniors, a retail center and a community public facility to this community. Marlton Square is the largest redevelopment project in South Los Angeles in the city’s history. |
| Encouraging development along public transit lines, including assisting with permitting and financing for housing and retail developments at the MTA stations at Wilshire and Vermont, Wilshire and Western, and North Hollywood. Mayor Hahn also supports the Density Bonus Ordinance, which gives developers incentives to build housing near transit corridors. |
| Streamlined the development process to encourage investment in Los Angeles neighborhoods and created a Development Services Committee to improve and better coordinate city services to the development community. |
| Created a one-hour, money-back guarantee for Department of Building and Safety Express Permits. If permits are not reviewed and qualified applicants are not given their permit within one hour of their request, the permit is free of charge. |
| Successfully fought to prevent the eviction of low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities who participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 housing program. |
| Supported efforts to protect seniors and other homeowners from predatory lenders who attempt to mislead them into accepting loans that can be financially damaging. Mayor Hahn’s efforts build upon his work as City Attorney to crackdown against home equity fraud, credit repair fraud loan swindles, eviction aid, job-placement services, employment scams, and other schemes that hurt consumers.
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| Proposed providing more than $2.2 million to pay for almost 40,000 hours of additional Los Angeles Police Department officer time devoted to serving Los Angeles Housing Authority projects, such as Nickerson Gardens in the Watts neighborhood. Mayor Hahn brought together the Housing Authority and the LAPD to vigorously enforce the Housing Authority’s existing Zero Tolerance Policy. |
| Worked with Los Angeles’ Housing Authority to provide almost $500,000 for housing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS, despite federal cuts to the Section 8 program. |
| Worked to develop an agreement that is helping to bring a new elementary school and affordable housing to the Westlake neighborhood. The community became concerned about competing needs for more housing and schools when the school district identified property that had already been acquired by a non-profit housing developer as a potential site for a new school. Mayor Hahn worked with Councilman Ed Reyes, the school district, and community organizations to find additional properties so that both projects could move forward. |