Last week I compiled a list of 19,000 housing units that couldn't be built if Measure S passes in the Los Angeles election being held on March 7th. That's nineteen thousand homes that wouldn't be built amidst a historic housing shortage and record-low vacancy rates for rental housing.

Because these projects would all require either a general plan amendment, zone change, or height district change (or some combination of the three), they would be banned for at least the next 2 years. The projects that require general plan amendments would be banned for as long as it takes the city to update its general plan, which could require up to 10 years, depending on community input and the inevitable delay of lawsuits from people like Michael Weinstein.

Most of the developments listed in last week's post were proposed in 2016. This week I took a look at more recent projects: those proposed in the last 3 weeks or so, between January 23rd and February 14th, 2017.

In that short span of time, plans were filed for about 3,400 more housing units—many of them in or around downtown—including over 1,300 affordable homes: those set aside exclusively for low-income households. All but 4 of those affordable units are in projects requesting a general plan amendment, so all of them would be prevented from going forward for years. Yes, even the 100% affordable developments.