Featured Resource:
Making Los Angeles More Livable
Southern California will add another 6 million people to its population by 2030. That’s like adding two Chicagos to the region. How can we make sure this growth doesn’t negatively affect our quality of life? Is there anything we can do?
It turns out that there is a lot that we can do. Making Los Angeles More Livable is an engaging presentation that describes what we can do to improve our quality of life even as our population increases.
View the presentation in English.
View the presentation in Spanish.
Other Resources:
Affordable Housing
Housing Crisis Task Force Report
Wide ranging recommendations to the LA City Council to address the housing crisis (March 2000).
http://housingcrisisla.ucla.edu
Design Advisor
Great site for showing the importance of architectural design in building affordable housing.
http://www.designadvisor.org
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
National organization providing investment and technical support for affordable housing, and community and economic development
http://www.liscnet.org
Enterprise Foundation
The Enterprise Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that provides assistance to grassroots homeownership organizations.
http://www.enterprisefoundation.org
Corportation for Supportive Housing
CSH helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness.
http://www.csh.org
Bring Los Angeles Home
A 10-year plan to end homelessness in LA County
http://www.bringlahome.org
Los Angeles Housing Department Affordable Housing Roster
List of affordable units in the City of Los Angeles
affordable housing roster
Los Angeles Region
Southern California Association of Governments
Reports, background and case studies on creating livable places in the region.
http://www.scag.ca.gov/livable
Transportation and Land Use Collaborative of Southern California
TLUC promotes joint transportation and land use decision-making at all levels of government within Southern California.
http://www.tluc.net
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Facilities Services Division
Shows preliminary designs and provides the status of the 85-plus new schools under development by the LAUSD in the Los Angeles area.
http://www.laschools.org
Location Efficient Mortgage (SCAG)
Good fact sheet on transportation myths about Los Angeles as well as a calculator for location efficient mortgages in Los Angeles and Orange counties.
http://www.scag.ca.gov/lem/loceff.htm
ULI Los Angeles
ULI Los Angeles, a district council of the Urban Land Institute, serves as a real estate forum for Southern California. The organization sponsors a number of events and conferences throughout the year.
http://www.uli-la.org
Neighborhood Knowledge California (NKCA)
An interactive website that assembles and maps a variety of databases that can be used in neighborhood research.
http://nkca.ucla.edu/
Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA)
http://nkla.ucla.edu/
Transportation
Mental Speed Bumps: The Smarter Way to Tame Traffic
This book (and website) explains the correlation between the speed of traffic on neighborhood streets and the psychological retreat motorists have made from the environment. It identifies a major city problem as fundamentally social and offers innovatively refreshing solutions.
http://www.mentalspeedbumps.com/about_book.htm
LA County Bicycle Coalition
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is a membership based advocacy organization working to improve the bicycling environment and quality of life in Los Angeles County
http://www.labikecoalition.org
Surface Transportation Policy Project
A national organization working to promote a diversified transportation system along with transportation oriented development.
http://www.transact.org
Car Free Cities
This book (and website) explains in detail many of the negative effects on urban life of an automobile-based transportation system, and provides a delightful vision of an alternative urban layout based on public transportation.
http://www.carfree.com
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
VTPI is an independent research organization dedicated to developing innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems.
http://www.vtpi.org/
Healthy Transportation Network
The Healthy Transportation Network assists California's local officials in creating more walkable and bicycle-friendly communities
http://www.healthytransportation.net
Smart Growth
The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)
The CNT website provides a rich matrix of ideas and tools for creating livable urban communities for everyone. This Chicago-based community organization and think tank is one of the leading advocates of more sustainable communities at the neighborhood level.
http://www.cnt.org
Center for Livable Communities (Local Government Commission)
Great resource for smart growth tools, background and case studies for smart growth.
http://www.lgc.org/center/index.html
Urban Advantage
Great site for visualizing new options for already developed neighborhoods.
http://www.urban-advantage.com
The Trust for Public Land
TPL’s real estate specialists work with governments and community groups to create urban parks and greenways in existing built-out areas.
http://www.tpl.org
Walkable Communities.
"Walkability guru" Dan Burden’s website.
http://www.walkable.org
Sustainable Communities Leadership Program
The Sustainable Communities Leadership Program builds communities in California by developing the next generation of diverse leaders.
http://www.eco.org/sclp/
Metropolitan Area Research Corporation
The Metropolitan Area Research Corporation (MARC) is a non-profit research and geographic information systems (GIS) firm with a history of service to the public interest, government, philanthropy, academia, and private research institutions.
http://www.metroresearch.org/
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