It is painfully obvious that the City is stalling on increasing its affordable housing stock despite multiple staff reports saying the contrary.
The City has entered into three affordable housing agreements with Thomas Safran, who is a consistent contributor to Inglewood Mayor James Butts’ reelection campaigns and only one of the projects is actually being built.
Related: Inglewood appears to be land banking to avoid building affordable housing
You wrote about the City land banking these parcels back in 2019 and the reason for it is to avoid having to sell the land and return the money to the state. The City’s own staff report says so. As long as the City purports to have active projects attached to parcels formerly owned by the Redevelopment Agency, it buys them time with the state, although based on the staff report, time is running out. This year to be exact.
Safran was granted two vacant parcels on the north end of Market Street at Regent and another vacant parcel at Crenshaw and 82nd Street in Feb 2018 to build affordable housing and if you drive by there regularly, no work is being done and there are no actions on any Inglewood council agenda from the Public Works department to support it either. The vacant lots on Market street lie along the path of the proposed Inglewood Transit Connector and the one on Crenshaw is most likely contaminated because it…
