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Most L.A. residents back mandatory earthquake retrofits

Por: Los Angeles Times Politics March 22, 2023

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Los Angeles residents strongly back the city's landmark earthquake retrofit law, a new poll has found, despite decades of conventional wisdom that such a rule would be politically unpopular because of its cost. More than 8 in 10 L.A. residents support the retrofit law, which passed in 2015 and targets certain vulnerable concrete buildings and apartment buildings with weak first stories, according to a Suffolk University/Los Angeles Times... + full article



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