Housing limit measure to ballot

Los Angeles voters will be asked this November to revamp outdated policies that could prohibit the city from funding low-income housing projects larger than five units and taller than two stories. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Daily News.

While the policies have been on the books for more than 30 years, housing officials have gotten around the restrictions and funded many three-story and taller affordable-housing projects for families and the homeless.

But last fall, the state's Housing and Community Development Department started looking more closely at the old policies, and Los Angeles Housing Department officials realized they needed to update their rules or risk losing $1.2 billion in housing bond money approved by voters in 2006.