2. Hiring Issues in the Coroner’s Office

Recommendations 10

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  The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors should formally declare the Los Angeles County housing shortage a crisis.
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  The City of Los Angeles Mayor and City Council, should formally declare that the Los Angeles City housing shortage is a crisis.
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  The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors should form a County-wide Affordable Housing Crisis Joint Powers Authority (AHCJPA) as follows: a. The AHCJPA is charged to increase the affordable housing stock in the County as rapidly as possible. b. The AHCJPA will define methods and plans to achieve 3.a. c. The AHCJPA has the authority within the participating jurisdictions to implement the measures necessary to achieve 3.a. d. The current Community Development Commission/Housing Authority is folded into the AHCJPA to provide initial staffing and apply their experience. The AHCJPA may consider launching an affordable communities design competition, encouraging the exploration of a wide variety of lower cost building approaches and arrangements including House Parks and multi-family manufactured housing. e. AHCJPA may restrict, by law, conversion of housing to short term rentals.
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  The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors should adopt a “shelter first/housing next” extension to “housing first” paradigm to speed eliminating street homelessness. 14 2016-2017 LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL GRAND JURY FINAL REPORT
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  The City of Los Angeles Mayor and City Council should adopt a “shelter first/housing next” extension to the “housing first” paradigm to speed eliminating street homelessness.
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  The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors should develop a plan to educate/incentivize against “NIMBY – ism.”
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  The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors should consider early purchase of land around proposed transport facilities, as defined by METRO, to reserve it for affordable housing.
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  The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors should lobby the California State Governor and Legislature to prevent the misuse of CEQA to delay and kill projects beyond its legitimate purpose.
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  The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors should restrict, by law, conversion of housing to short term rentals.
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  The City of Los Angeles should restrict, by law, conversion of housing to short term rentals. VI REQUIRED RESPONSES California Penal Code Sections 933(c) and 933.05 require a written response to all recommendations contained in this report. Responses shall be made no later than ninety (90) days after the Civil Grand Jury publishes its report and files it with the Clerk of the Court. Responses shall be made in accord with Penal Code Sections 933.05 (a) and (b). All responses to the recommendations of the 2016-2017 Civil Grand Jury must be submitted on or before September 30, 2017, to: Presiding Judge Los Angeles County Superior Court Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center 210 West Temple Street Eleventh Floor-Room 11-506 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Responses to the recommendations above are requested from the following: Responding Agency Recommendations The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 City of Los Angeles Mayor 1.2, 1.5, 1.10 Los Angeles City Council 1.2, 1.5, 1.10 2016-2017 LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL GRAND JURY FINAL REPORT 15 VII ACRONYMS AHCJPA Affordable Housing Crisis Joint Powers Authority AIRBnB™ AIRBnB™, Inc. the company BOS County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors CEQA California Environmental Quality Act GHGs Greenhouse Gases NIMBY “Not in My BackYard” SCAG Southern California Association of Governments TEU Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit VIII COMMITTEE MEMBERS Douglas Benedict Chair Alice Beener Gerard Duiker Faramarz Taheri 16 2016-2017 LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL GRAND JURY FINAL REPORT