Metro isn’t just moving people through East Hollywood. It’s using station land to build affordable homes, too.
This is The LA Daily Fix. Today: public land, permitting choices, and the local accountability that decides what LA can actually get built.
Alright, let’s get into the fixes.
First up: Metro’s housing play in East Hollywood.
This comes from a Contributing Editor at MyNewsLA:
Metro partnered with Little Tokyo Service Center to unveil the Santa Monica Vermont Apartments, a transit-oriented complex designed for low-income households. The development is located at 1021 N. Vermont Ave., adjacent to the Metro B Line’s Vermont/Santa Monica station at the intersection of Vermont Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard, according to Metro officials.
The apartment complex consists of two buildings with 185 income-restricted affordable units, two property manager’s units, and more than 20,000 square feet of commercial space.
That’s the housing-and-transit pairing LA keeps talking about: affordable units right next to rail people can actually use. Now the question is whether Metro can make this normal — not just a rare ribbon-cutting.
Links to everything we covered today are in the show notes, so if one of these stories stuck with you, you can dig in there.
That’s The LA Daily Fix for Friday, May 1st. This is a Lantern Podcast.