Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced plans to increase the City’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund to $100 million as the first step in ending the region’s housing crisis at the Los Angeles Business Council’s 2005 Mayoral Housing Summit last week.
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