Housing
The LCI is a framework and a set of tools that allows neighborhoods to create streets with beautiful architecture and an abundance of low-cost, high-quality housing in car-light 15 minute communities. Here are several building blocks:
Mobility
Mobility Creating a walkable, bikeable life where everyone can safely and pleasantly walk, bike, trike, use a golf cart, and
Resources: Parking Ruins Everything
Links to resources about the ways parking issues thwart the creation of affordable housing.
Resources: Car-Lite Communities
Links to resources related to car-lite living, traffic, and the 15-minute city.
Resources: Housing
Collection of links to resources related to housing, building, homelessness, and architecture.
Neighborhood Serving Retail
By choosing a street where housing can be built over existing Neighborhood Serving Retail and small, local shops and family-owned businesses, we can create a walkable neighborhood where residents can live car-light or even car-free.
The Civic City
By developing civic attributes and placemaking, a public space can go from being the corridor between starting point and destination, to a destination in and of itself.
Guide to Quick Build
A method of using temporary, low-cost materials such as paint and planters that are quickly installed to implement a new street design cheaply, that can be easily reversed.
LCI: Climate
California needs to build 3.5 million homes. We also have a climate crisis, air quality crisis, and traffic crisis. The LCI offers a unique solution.
LCI: Equity
The Livable Communities Initiative (LCI) is a plan to build mixed-income and affordable housing that is attainable for all Angelenos.
Who Would Live Here
“Who would want to live without a car?” “LA is a car town.” “No one wants to give up their car.” Answer: more people than you’d think.
LCI: NOAH
By remove parking, delays, red tape, risk, and fees, LA has had two successful real life experiments in how to let the market build affordable housing.