The Santa Monica City Council has made way for a new approach to affordable housing construction in the seaside enclave. Officials voted 6-1 in the council’s most recent meeting to approve a pilot program allowing developers to build affordable housing off-site instead of requiring it as part of a development, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported. The approval comes amid concerns the policy could lead to economic segregation in the city. Mayor Lana Negrete was the sole dissenter, noting it could create “modern-day redlining, just in a much subtler form.” “This pilot risks accelerating that imbalance,” Negrete said, per the […]
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