{"content":[{"text":"EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE NO. 30","bbox":{"left":0.355572,"top":0.272298,"width":0.2887449999999999,"height":0.020863999999999994}},{"text":"Issue Date: April 16, 2021","bbox":{"left":0.387141,"top":0.307071,"width":0.225686,"height":0.020818000000000003}},{"text":"Subject:","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.358093,"width":0.07731400000000001,"height":0.020863999999999994}},{"text":"Further Expediting and Expanding Affordable Housing","bbox":{"left":0.29415,"top":0.358093,"width":0.5076280000000001,"height":0.020863999999999994}},{"text":"Our affordable housing crisis is decades in the making. Too many workers can’t afford to \n live close to their offices. Too many households pay an inordinate portion of their incomes \n on rent. Too many Angelenos are being priced out of the market -- and forced to make \n impossible choices between a roof over their head, food on the table, and other basic \n necessities. Too often, this ends with our most vulnerable neighbors landing without a \n home, living on sidewalks, in encampments or shelters.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.392109,"width":0.7649680000000001,"height":0.10793899999999995}},{"text":"Our City has an immense responsibility to deploy every possible tool to make it easier \n and more affordable for people of all means, salaries, and backgrounds to live in Los \n Angeles. To that end, in 2015, Executive Directive 13, Support for Affordable Housing \n Development, came online, lifting up the vital role of City departments in reducing \n impediments to housing construction and creating more affordable homes. By focusing \n on the processes of Los Angeles City Planning, the Department of Building & Safety, and \n the Housing & Community Investment Department, insisting on collaboration between \n them, and prioritizing affordable housing development, we met our primary goal two years \n ahead of schedule: permitting 100,000 new housing units; so far, eight percent of these \n units are restricted as affordable to households at low-income levels.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.514078,"width":0.7650850000000001,"height":0.17811599999999994}},{"text":"Executive Directive 13 has been effective, but it remains insufficient. The magnitude of \n this problem persists, and the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis have \n only deepened this challenge. Nearly 60% of the region’s households paid more than \n 30% of their incomes toward housing. Close to 30% spent more than half, and the strain \n is even more severe for very low-income households: 342,000 of these struggling families \n devote over 50% of their limited incomes toward housing costs.","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.706528,"width":0.7649480000000001,"height":0.10797699999999999}},{"text":"The consequences of this crisis are profound. Workers have to find housing outside our \n city limits, and as a result, endure long, fatiguing commutes to work, only worsening \n issues of traffic, greenhouse gas emissions, and lost economic productivity. Friends move \n to other states and our communities lose valuable employee talent. Families have","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.828535,"width":0.764742,"height":0.07308599999999998}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.000588,"top":0.942424,"width":1.000196,"height":0.056818},{"left":-0.013922,"top":-0.018333,"width":1.006471,"height":0.285758}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.000588,"top":0.942424,"width":1.000196,"height":0.056818},{"left":-0.013922,"top":-0.018333,"width":1.006471,"height":0.285758}]}