A contentious proposal to build affordable housing on parking lots next to the Venice Canals has secured a key funding commitment from the State of California, developer Hollywood Community Housing announced earlier this month.
The Venice Dell project, a joint development between Hollywood Community Housing and Venice Community Housing, is planned to replace an LADOT parking lot bounded by Venice Boulevard, Pacific Avenue, Canal Street, and Dell Avenue, would consist of low-rise structures containing 120 apartments, commercial space, replacement parking for residents and surrounding businesses in Venice.
The project is the recipient of a more than $42.4-million conditional award from the third round of the Department of Housing and Community Development. That money can be leveraged with other sources to cover an estimated $133 million budget for the project.
“With this award, the State of California recognizes that the Venice Dell Community meets key policy objectives — including building on surplus public land, creating housing in high-resource areas, and serving extremely low-income households,” said Venice Community Housing co-executive director Allison Riley in a statement.
While plans to redevelop the Venice Dell site date back roughly one decade, a changing of the guard in Council District 11 and the Los Angeles City Attorney's office has resulted in new roadblocks for the project. Incumbent 11th District Councilmember Traci Park, who opposed the project on the campaign trail, has instead proposed using an alternate site that has not undergone the entitlement process for affordable housing instead. Critics have cast that move as a veiled attempt to kill the Venice Dell project, and argue that doing so would put the City of Los Angeles in legal jeopardy.
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