74% of LA is zoned for Single Family housing. The biggest US city outside of NYC doesn’t allow apartments in a majority of its land.

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74% of LA is zoned for Single Family housing. The biggest US city outs…

74% of LA is zoned for Single Family housing. The biggest US city outside of NYC doesn’t allow apartments in a majority of its land.

LA has a goal of building 450,000 more homes in the next 5 years to meet housing demands and reduce prices. Yet the LA City Planning Commission just voted unanimously to maintain the current single-family zoning. They claim it’s 72% of land.

This map was created by UC Berkeley researchers and I found it in this LAist article, which has more details on the topic:

https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-zoning-planning-department-recommendation-recap

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