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Housing & Homelessness

VAN NUYS : Ideas Sought on Affordable Housing

By HENRY CHU

Los Angeles housing officials are scheduled to meet with San Fernando Valley residents Wednesday to gather comments on how to update the city’s long-term strategy for creating more affordable housing.

At an evening workshop in Van Nuys, officials will discuss the city’s Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy, a wide-ranging plan approved by the Los Angeles City Council in November to provide direction to city housing policy.

Maya Dunne of the city’s Housing Preservation and Production Department said her agency is charged with updating the priorities and proposals outlined in the plan. For the past year, the emphasis has been on reducing delays for development projects, establishing a loan program for first-time home buyers and building homes for senior citizens and the disabled.

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Wednesday’s workshop, one of four throughout the city, is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Physics Building at Valley College.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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