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Sign up for Building Your Block, a seven-issue newsletter course from LAist. We’ll explain L.A.’s housing challenges and what you can do to make things better. California housing officials are now suing Norwalk , following through on warnings that a local ban on homeless shelters would land the city in court.
Margarita Rios, the city’s mayor, previously told LAist that local officials know the needs of the community better than those serving in statewide office.State officials have grown increasingly impatient with what they see as stubborn NIMBYism from elected leaders in a number of cities across the state.“The Norwalk city council’s failure to reverse this ban, despite knowing it is unlawful, is inexcusable,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement on the latest in this round of housing lawsuits.
One LAist reader responded to the latest story in our ongoing Andrew Do investigation by asking,"Which is more disgusting: the fraud or the fact that a starter home is costing 1 million these days?"In escalating fight, Newsom takes away defiant Norwalk’s ability to kill large housing projects
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