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![How Los Angeles Got Serious About Housing](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_thumnail_260x167_/public/blog/2022-03/1%20rendering%201.jpg?itok=xpEfzXGn)
Our City—rich in industry and creativity—has gained the unfortunate notoriety of being a major epicenter in the California housing crisis. The fundamental reason for our crisis is the same as in most global cities: an extreme shortage of housing, which has left Angelenos to face overcrowding, punishing commutes, or, all too often, homelessness.
![What is the New Zoning Code?](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_thumnail_260x167_/public/blog/2022-01/banner-683451678.jpg?itok=VXrUh1qb)
City Planning is modernizing Los Angeles’s Zoning Code to align with contemporary planning needs. This is the first comprehensive update to the Code since 1946 and marks a major shift from strictly Euclidean zoning—the most common form of land use regulation in the United States—to a hybrid, or modular, zoning approach.
![Housing Quarterly Trends](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_thumnail_260x167_/public/blog/2020-12/202012_QuarterlyHousingTrends_blog-01.png?itok=hl-V75Qs)
While the broad economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to be determined, the increase in the number of proposed housing units indicates a growth in demand for housing development.
![The Movement for Racial Justice and the Plan to House LA](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_thumnail_260x167_/public/blog/2020-08/Plan%20to%20House%20LA%20%26%20Racial%20Justice_Cover2_Cover_0.png?itok=LAt_aLKD)
In the first half of 2020, we experienced profound changes to our daily lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered where we work and how we learn; how we access basic needs, such as quality health care and testing; and most importantly, how critical it is to have a place of shelter.
![What is the Home-Sharing Program?](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_thumnail_260x167_/public/blog/2020-07/202007_HomeSharingProgram-Blog-Banner-01.png?itok=qG--gZdr)
Two years have passed since the Los Angeles City Council adopted the Home-Sharing Program, and one year since the City began to enforce this new program.
![Affordable Housing Production On the Rise](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_thumnail_260x167_/public/blog/2020-02/202002_AffordableHousing-Banner-01-01.png?itok=3qz2RJ2_)