An AIDS Charity Fights Builders in L.A.
The nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation has spent more than $4 million on a ballot measure.
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Los Angeles, long on sprawl but short on housing stock, is no stranger to development battles. But it’s never seen anything quite like the clash over a proposal on the March 7 municipal ballot, known as Measure S, which would put a two-year halt on most major real estate projects.
Spearheading the initiative is the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has supplied more than 98 percent of the more than $4.5 million spent as of Feb. 18 on pro-S efforts, according to disclosure forms filed with the city. Critics question the motivations of the group, which is in the midst of a lawsuit to stop two 28-story luxury residential towers from going up next to its headquarters on Sunset Boulevard.