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LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass announced a new $314 million Measure ULA package last week — $300 million for affordable housing production and $14 million for emergency rental assistance — while the City’s housing department is separately asking lawmakers to change parts of the voter-approve…
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles officials on Friday took the next formal step toward reopening the fight over Measure ULA, advancing three motions to study whether the voter-approved transfer tax is slowing new apartment construction or properly funding homelessness prevention and affordable housing.
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LOS ANGELES - The first mayoral debate of the 2026 race gave three challengers a chance Monday night to make their case on housing, homelessness, transportation, and the city’s struggling basic services.
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LOS ANGELES - City Councilwoman Ysabel Jurado will chair a newly created ad hoc committee charged with reviewing Measure ULA — the voter-approved transfer tax that has generated more than $1 billion for homelessness and housing programs while drawing growing scrutiny over its effect on apart…
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LOS ANGELES - The City Council voted Wednesday to create a three-member ad hoc committee to review and recommend changes to Measure ULA, the voter-approved real estate transfer tax that has raised more than $1 billion for homelessness prevention and affordable housing programs.
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LOS ANGELES — The City Council on Tuesday approved a $177 million Measure ULA contract package for eviction defense and homelessness prevention, moving forward with a nine-figure public funding deal that keeps the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) at the center of the tenant defens…
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LOS ANGELES — For the second week in a row, the City Council delayed action on the broader $177 million Measure ULA contract package for eviction defense after members said a City Attorney legal analysis arrived too late for offices to review ahead of the meeting.
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LOS ANGELES — For the second time in about a week, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday delayed a high-stakes vote on whether to approve $177 million in Measure ULA funding for Stay Housed LA contractors — a postponement that tenant advocates say risks interrupting eviction defense and ho…
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LOS ANGELES — Two years after Los Angeles voters approved Measure ULA with promises of a major new funding stream for affordable housing and homelessness prevention, the City Council on Tuesday took up a motion that could ultimately put the tax back on the ballot — but did not vote to advanc…
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LOS ANGELES — Two years after Los Angeles voters approved Measure ULA with promises of a major new funding stream for affordable housing and homelessness prevention, the City Council is poised to put the tax back on the ballot.
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Passed with big promises in 2022, Measure ULA’s rollout has been rocky: sluggish revenues, halted projects, and growing political fallout now fueling a push for reform in Sacramento.
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PACIFIC PALISADES - Hoping to expedite recovery efforts in the Pacific Palisades burn area, Mayor Karen Bass called on the City Council Thursday to adopt an ordinance allowing for a one-time exception to the city's so-called "mansion tax" to speed property sales and expedite rebuilding projects.
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LOS ANGELES — The Mansion Tax remains a flashpoint in Los Angeles — and now a prominent real estate broker is sounding the alarm on Instagram.
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LOS ANGELES — Two years after Los Angeles began collecting a tax on multimillion-dollar property sales, nearly all the money meant to combat the city’s worsening housing and homelessness crisis remains untouched—sitting idle in city accounts as homelessness worsens and construction stalls.
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As more details emerge about Measure ULA, legal experts warn its strict rules are stalling housing in Los Angeles. Attorney Keith Fromm, representing plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit, says ULA’s restrictions block standard financing while construction costs climb.
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Despite promises of a billion-dollar windfall to fight homelessness, L.A.’s real estate transfer tax has delivered just a fraction—while stalling development, gutting the tax base, and complicating post-fire recovery.
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LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday advanced an effort to re-allocate some $15 million from the city's so-called "mansion tax" to an emergency rental assistance program for survivors of January's wildfires.
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LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass said Tuesday that her administration and the Los Angeles City Council are exploring ways to suspend Measure ULA, the city’s contentious real estate transfer tax, as part of efforts to support the rebuilding of areas devastated by recent wildfires.
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LOS ANGELES - Renters in Los Angeles can anticipate more support from the city after Tuesday's expansion of programs under Measure ULA, including eviction defense, rental assistance and income support for seniors and people with disabilities.
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LOS ANGELES - The November, 2022 passage of ULA (aka, “United to House L.A.” or the “Mansion Tax”) is perhaps the best evidence of non-profit housing developers’ recently acquired political muscle. SCANPH – the Southern California Association of Non Profit Housing – a membership organizatio…
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The “Mansion Tax,” Measure ULA, passed in November 2022, with 58 percent of voters approving, and 42 against.
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LOS ANGELES - Following a successful petition by a coalition of labor unions and other organizations, and a 14-0 city council decision Wednesday, Los Angeles voters in November will consider a ballot measure that would create a tax on multimillion-dollar property sales to fund solutions to …
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LOS ANGELES - A coalition of labor unions and organizations focusing on homelessness, tenants' rights, workers' rights and affordable housing will announce a ballot measure initiative today to create a tax on multi-million dollar property sales to fund the homelessness crisis, including perm…
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LOS ANGELES — California is pouring more money into Los Angeles County’s homelessness housing pipeline while federal prosecutors continue pursuing cases alleging millions in earlier homelessness dollars were diverted.
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