Los Angeles officials have reached an agreement with the Trump administration over alleged discrimination in housing, agreeing to build or retrofit more than 4,000 apartments for disabled residents over the next decade.
Los Angeles officials have reached an agreement with the Trump administration over alleged discrimination in housing, agreeing to build or retrofit more than 4,000 apartments for disabled residents over the next decade, officials said Friday.threatened to withhold $80 million from the city
“I’m pleased we can now turn a page and begin the real work of providing affordable housing to the people who need it most and have gone without it for too long,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a statement Friday.with disabled rights groups over the same issue. In that case, the city pledged to spend $200 million over a decade to resolve such problems and ensure that 4,000 units were accessible.
There are some key differences between the two agreements. Rushmore Cervantes, who heads L.A.'s Housing and Community Investment Department, said the earlier deal did not specify whether its 4,000-unit goal had to be met with new construction or rehabilitated units.Under the HUD agreement, which was approved Friday by the City Council, Los Angeles must retrofit 3,100 existing apartments so that they can be used by tenants with disabilities.
As part of the agreement, L.A. did not admit any wrongdoing. Garcetti welcomed HUD’s announcement, which followed weeks of negotiations between city leaders and federal housing officials. That lawsuit was settled in 2016. But the next year, federal investigators found that L.A. developments still had crucial flaws, such as closets that were too narrow and grab bars placed improperly, putting wheelchair users at risk of falling.
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