Residents Fume as California Senate Passes Bill to Put Low-Income Housing on Burned Lots

Local residents were outraged Tuesday after the California State Senate passed legislation that would create a new layer of local government to buy burned lots in L.A. for the purpose of building low-income housing.

The legislation, S.B. 549, introduced by State Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), would “authorize the County of Los Angeles to establish a Resilient Rebuilding Authority” that could collect local property taxes if it uses “at least 40 percent of the total funds received … for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing, including the costs of predevelopment and land acquisition, for households with incomes below 60…

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