Jun. 18, 2025
Eyeing federal land use for new housing and its hurdles
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A lunchtime brainstorming session by a real estate partner at a Los Angeles law firm and a professor of land use law at Pepperdine University sparked an outside-the-tract idea after President Donald Trump's announcement in March of a task force to develop affordable housing on unused federal land: Why not repurpose as apartments the historic 17-floor Spring Street Courthouse, which the federal government owns and has announced it will sell?
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