Take Action to Save Venice Dell

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120 units of affordable housing, or 100 more layoffs of city workers?

This is the choice Mayor Bass must make before July 4th — the final date the City of LA can respond to a Notice of Default on the much-delayed Venice Dell Community. Send Mayor Bass this pre-populated email* now, and call on her to choose housing. If you’ve sent an email supporting Venice Dell before, do so again now — this new and urgent deadline must be brought to the attention of the City.

What does a Notice of Default do?

A Notice of Default has been delivered to the City of LA by Venice Community Housing and Hollywood Community Housing, two organizations who have a Disposition and Development Agreement executed by the City and approved by the City Council to build the Venice Dell Community, 120-units of affordable housing on Lot 731 in Venice. A Notice of Default is a formal legal notice listing actions the City has agreed to take, but has not taken. In this case, the City has stalled on actions which would have kept the Venice Dell project moving forward. If the City does not communicate its intent to take those actions within 45 days of the Notice on Default (July 4, 2025), the City puts itself in position to be liable for actual costs and damages exceeding $10 million. 

During budget conversations, the LA City Council estimated the cost of each City job at about $100,000 per job. $10 million is the equivalent to having to find 100 more city jobs to lay off. 

Call on Mayor Bass to do the right thing.

We’ve just passed a tough budget that worked to save as many city jobs as possible and keeps city services hanging on by a thread. Will the City take a step backwards and choose to default on the Venice Dell Community- potentially putting itself in position to lay off 100 additional civil service workers and further disrupt city services? Tell the Mayor you’d rather proceed with 120 units of much-needed affordable housing. We cannot afford to default on the Venice Dell Community.

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