To the editor: I stay in Pasadena however fortunately wasn’t in an evacuation zone. Nonetheless, since final week I’ve been getting requests to hire and even purchase my home, from each buddies and strangers. Persons are determined for housing. (“Fire victims compete to find new homes as real estate market rages in Pacific Palisades, Altadena,” Jan. 11)
In the meantime, homes stand vacant on my road. One newly constructed home on my block was bought by somebody who lives abroad and hasn’t set foot there. One other is a home a neighbor inherited and is holding on to for monetary causes with out dwelling in it or renting it out. He stops by as soon as a month to chop again the weeds.
A number of extra within the space are owned by Caltrans, a part of a purchase order from when the 710 Freeway was presupposed to undergo right here. They’ve sat vacant for years.
I imagine we have to construct extra reasonably priced housing, however what about all the present housing that’s unused? What coverage can we put into place to discourage homeowners of second properties from letting their properties sit vacant? How can we transfer the state alongside to get these 710 Freeway homes inhabited?
Rebecca Tuynman, Pasadena
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To the editor: Los Angeles ought to take the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza skyscrapers in downtown L.A. off the market. Companion with the county to complete the mission and create a neighborhood land belief.
Pitkin County, Colo., set a profitable precedent. Within the Eighties, lack of reasonably priced housing for carry operators, lecturers and first responders threatened the Aspen resorts. Pitkin County started constructing, and now greater than 3,200 individuals stay in these reasonably priced properties.
Finishing Oceanwide Plaza ought to take much less time than constructing hundreds of particular person properties and flats. It’s a uncommon alternative to create an inclusive, mixed-income district with completely reasonably priced condos and flats. Market-rate penthouses and bigger models can offset mission prices.
Not everybody displaced by hearth will need to stay downtown. However L.A. wants extra housing, and lots of will discover the views and site close to transit fairly fascinating. An area-wide shuffle would liberate models in different neighborhoods.
Ginger Wireman, Richland, Wash.
