Ballot for Quake-Safe, Low-Rent Homes Asked
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and state Senate President Pro Tem David Roberti (D-Los Angeles) on Friday called for a $90-million bond measure on the next city ballot to bring low-income rental housing up to seismic safety standards.
A similar measure--Proposition 3--to raise funds for restoration of pre-1933 unreinforced masonry buildings, failed by two percentage points of winning a required two-thirds approval from voters in April.
In a letter to Bradley and the City Council, Roberti said the Northern California earthquake “dramatically reminded us all in Los Angeles of our own vulnerability and our need to be fully prepared for our own inevitable disaster.”
Bradley said he wanted to “give voters one more chance to make the financing available so that all of our buildings can become earthquake safe.”
The bond measure would allow the city to make loans to strengthen low-income rental housing properties which are not earthquake-safe and for nonprofit organizations to buy and improve rental housing that is not earthquake-safe.
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