Culver City : Housing Budget Increased

The Culver City Redevelopment Agency this week increased the city’s budget for housing for the disabled, foster children and seniors from $500,000 to about $1.7 million over the next five years to accommodate requests to fund such housing.

Recently, the city has received funding requests of $319,211 and $388,000 for two homes for the disabled. This had some residents, who fear a large concentration of the group homes, clamoring for reforms in the rules for approving such homes.

The agency, in turn, voted unanimously to establish a minimum 1,000-foot buffer zone between each home. In the same measure, the council increased from 300 feet to 1,000 feet the area in which the city must distribute information on a proposed group home.