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Business Summit: Linking jobs, homes and transit
KPCC–– A home, a job, and an easy ride between the two. Los Angeles County has struggled to provide those essentials – with housing costs rising so high in the areas where jobs are located that many...
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Ranking 104 LA Neighborhoods
Curbed LA— Last year, the Los Angeles Business Council put out a report written by UCLA Anderson School of Management lecturer/developer Paul Habibi saying that average working Angelenos can’t actually...
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Garcetti says housing shortage, minimum wage linked in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times—By TIFFANY HSUThe housing shortage in Los Angeles – possibly the most severe since the end of World War II – is linked to a low minimum wage and a host of other economic issues in the...
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Report advocates housing development along L.A. River
Los Angeles Times— By TIM LOGANIf Los Angeles aims to add more housing, it should look at the neighborhoods lining its long-maligned river to do it.That’s the thrust of a new report out Friday from an...
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Bringing 2024 Olympics to LA could ease housing crisis, city leaders say
ABC7— By Sid GarciaWESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Affordable housing and Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics took center stage at the L.A. Housing Summit at UCLA on Friday. Casey Wasserman,...
View Article‘Build Better LA’ Initiative: Right Idea, Wrong Approach
Mary LesliePresident, Los Angeles Business CouncilOver the last several months our leadership and membership have reviewed the Build Better LA proposal to craft a position only after we did our due...
View ArticleHow L.A.’s Housing Crisis Impacts Our Regions Largest Employers
Mary Leslie President, Los Angeles Business CouncilCalifornia’s skyrocketing housing costs has made it one of the most expensive places to live in the nation, affecting virtually everyone from young...
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L.A.’s Tight Housing Market Bad for Business
By Mary Leslie and Gary Painter(Los Angeles Business Journal)— Los Angeles faces a reality marked by economic extremes: Our unemployment rate sits at record lows with wages steadily rising, yet the...
View ArticleLos Angeles Business Council Statement on Prop 10
Mary Leslie President, Los Angeles Business CouncilThe Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) today released the following statement in regards to voters defeating Proposition 10, a ballot measure on rent...
View ArticleLos Angeles Business Council Statement on 2019-2020 State Budget
Mary LesliePresident, Los Angeles Business CouncilAs California continues to seek solutions to the housing affordability and homelessness crises, the Los Angeles Business Council (LABC) applauds...
View ArticleStatement From the L.A. Business Council on Recommendations from the...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (January 14, 2020) – Los Angeles Business Council President Mary Leslie today released the following statement regarding an interim set of recommendations on addressing homelessness...
View ArticleL.A. Business Council and Enterprise Community Partners Convene Working Group...
Top priorities include advancing mandate to end homelessness and streamlining housing solutionsLOS ANGELES, Calif. (February 13, 2020) —The Los Angeles Business Council, together with affordable...
View ArticleLABC Institute and Wells Fargo Collaborate to Launch Virtual Speaker Series...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (April 9, 2020) — As COVID-19 sweeps California, tens of thousands of people still live on the streets, making them more vulnerable to contracting and rapidly spreading the...
View ArticleLABC Launches Webinar Series Featuring Experts and Decision Makers
Since shelter-in-place orders were announced in March, the LABC has jumped into action to provide our members with information, resources and access to experts and decision makers on a variety of...
View ArticleL.A. BUSINESS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES KEY ENDORSEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2020 STATEWIDE...
L.A. BUSINESS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES KEY ENDORSEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2020 STATEWIDE BALLOT MEASURES LOS ANGELES, Calif. (September 3, 2020) – The Los Angeles Business Council, one of the most influential...
View ArticleLABC STATEMENT ON SPENDING $20 BILLION TO ADDRESS CALIFORNIA’S HOMELESS CRISIS
The Los Angeles Business Council issued the following statement today regarding the former legislative leaders’ proposal to Senate pro Temp Atkins and Speaker Rendon calling for $20 billion in state...
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