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“Measure S goes too far and hurts our community. It will raise housing costs, stop economic development and revitalization in our community, and destroy tens of thousands of good-paying jobs every year. Join me and many other leaders in saying NO on S .” – L.A. City Council President Herb Wesson Just last year, community leaders like Council President Herb Wesson, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, and many others fought for reforms to reduce homelessness and increase affordable housing. Measure S will block these reforms and make homelessness and our housing crisis worse.
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“Measure S goes too far and hurts our community.
It will raise housing costs, stop economic development
and revitalization in our community, and destroy tens of
thousands of good-paying jobs every year.
Join me and many other leaders in saying NO on S.”– L.A. City Council President
Herb Wesson
Just last year, community leaders like Council President Herb Wesson,
Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, and
many others fought for reforms to reduce homelessness and increase
affordable housing. Measure S will block these reforms and make
homelessness and our housing crisis worse.
Measure S blocks 90% of planned
housing for the homeless.
Council President Herb Wesson, the L.A. Sentinel, and community leaders all oppose Measure S:
Raises Housing Costs and RentsMeasure S raises housing costs and rents, costing renters an additional $10.6 million every year [1]
Bans Housing – including much needed Affordable HousingMeasure S bans virtually all new housing, including voter-approved measures to force developers to build more affordable housing and 90% of the city’s planned permanent housing for the homeless [2]
Destroys Jobs and Eliminates Wages Measure S destroys 12,000 good-paying jobs and eliminates $640 million in wages every year [3]
Community Leaders Say NO on Measure SL.A. City Council President Herb Wesson
Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas
Mayor Eric Garcetti
L.A. City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson
L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
Democratic Party
L.A. County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
United Firefighters of Los Angeles City
Southern California Assn. of Nonprofit Housing
Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce
WARD Economic Development Corporation
Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles
Leadership for Urban Renewal Network
Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, Board Member – LA Metropolitan Transportation*
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Sentinel
*Titles for identification purposes only. Partial list.
NO on Measure S – it goes too far and hurts our communities
Vote March 7th www.GoesTooFar.com
Get the facts: [1] [3] [4] Beacon Economics, Measure S: Economic Policy Analysis (December 2016) - www.GoesTooFar.com/Report[2] 90% of City of Los Angeles Request for qualifications / proposals for the affordable housing opportunity sites (July 25, 2016) require a General Plan Amendment to be built – Measure S blocks those housing sites from being built.
