L.A. City Council votes to boost housing development, while leaving out single-family-home zones

"The council approved the plan Tuesday after briefly debating whether to allow denser housing in single-family areas, which some housing advocates have argued is needed to meaningfully reduce economic and racial segregation that single-family zoning has helped maintain."

"Under the plan, developers could exceed current limits on building in those areas if they include a certain percentage of affordable units."

"The rezoning effort is a response to state housing mandates that seek to alleviate the housing crisis by requiring the city to find land where an additional 255,000 homes can be built."

"Councilmember Nithya Raman proposed a motion that would have allowed mixed-income and 100% affordable apartment buildings within some single-family zones near transit while restricting developers to smaller-sized projects."

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