As you may have learned from the news, a coalition of labor and affordable housing advocates recently announced it may seek to place the “Build Better LA Initiative” (“labor initiative”) on the City of Los Angeles ballot in November 2016 that may require a large class of residential projects in the city to include a significant percentage of residential units that are affordable for low income households. The labor initiative may also require that contractors building those projects ensure a certain percentage of their workforce includes residents of the city and require contractors to pay their workers a standard wage. The labor initiative effort is separate and distinct from a concurrent ballot initiative effort that would impose a citywide building moratorium for two years. The labor initiative appears not to apply to certain categories of projects.