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Investigation: LA's Homeless Desperate for Housing, Why Are Many SROs Vacant?
Ninety-one units at two single-room occupancy hotels have been demolished. With nearly 1,500 homeless residents dying on the streets in the L.A. area between 2020 and 2021, the L.A. City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti must immediately uti…
30 Tiny Homes Sat Vacant While Veterans Awaited Housing
VETERAN HOUSING - The sprawling 388-acre West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs (VA) Campus, deeded to veterans in 1888 as the “National Home fo…
Bass’ And Caruso’s “Solutions” To Homelessness Explain Why LA’s Housing Crisis Is Getting Worse
PLANNING WATCH - The Sunday, September 4, 2022, Los Angeles Times had a top-of-the-fold front page article comparing the homeless proposals…
The Gascon Recall Failure
GUEST COMMENTARY - As one who understands elections from a first-hand perspective, I also understand the risk that is assumed when endorsin…
City Hall’s Fanciful Justifications for its Real Estate Scams
PLANNING WATCH - Who has the time to keep track of the real estate scams that regularly wallow up at City Hall, always packaged with fancif…
Paul Koretz: In Tough Race Against Mejia
LA POLITICS - Of all the Los Angeles City Councilmembers who voted to suspend CD 10 representative Mark Ridley-Thomas (MR-T), Councilmember…
Is The LA City Council Against A Black Woman As A Council Member?
CD 10 FILE- Los Angeles City council has not had a black woman serve as a member since Jan Perry and this was over a decade ago.
Lessons From Skid Row
THE EASTSIDER - Back in the 90’s, I was living in a Loft at the Brewery in Lincoln Heights, and working downtown.
Unlike High Profile Crimes, Petty and White Collar Crimes are Under Reported and Often Unpunished
PLANNING WATCH - We are surrounded by crime, such as the petty street crimes that the media relish, as well as other types of crime that ra…
Stop the City’s Sale of our Sidewalks to the Sign Industry
GUEST COMMENTARY – What is happening? The City Council’s Public Works and Finance Committees are holding a joint meeting to consider approv…
Councilmember-Elect Eunisses Hernandez Wants to Shake Up L.A. City Hall
LA POLITICS - Eunisses Hernandez’s toppling of Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo came as part of a progressive temblor that shook…
What is Paul Krekorian’s Agenda?
LA POLITICS - Two weeks ago, Councilmember Paul Krekorian introduced a motion co-authored by Councilmember Gil Cedillo seeking an opinion f…
How Bad Planning Thrives in LA -- the case of the Wilshire Community Plan
PLANNING WATCH - The 21 year old Wilshire Community Plan is part of LA’s General Plan’s Land Use Element.
The 6th Street Viaduct, the Failure to Recall George Gascón, and a Tribute to Ken Draper
RantZ and RaveZ - The new Sixth Street Viaduct and what it has become for Commuters, Residents, and the LAPD.
Two Weeks Before Payments Resume, Progressives Tell Biden 'Time to Cancel Student Debt'
STUDENT DEBT - With only two weeks before a pandemic-related pause on federal student loan payments expires, progressive lawmakers and orga…
Los Angeles Moves from Corruptionism to Insanity
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Just because Los Angeles City Council operates above the law in open violation of Penal Code, § 86 does not means its…
Bike Lanes Will Not Fight Climate Change In Southern California
LA TRANSPO - The August 10, 2022, edition of the Los Angeles Times ran an article on a ballot proposal to require bike and pedestrian lanes…
50 City Report: California’s Fixer-Upper Markets Are the Most Expensive
A HOUSING - With interest rates and home prices at record highs, the homeownership dream feels less attainable these days.
The Valley: Is It Safe?
SFV CRIME - Oh, the irony of this question coming from my fellow Angelenos is almost beyond my comprehension. Is it safe?
LA ‘s Public Sidewalks and Parkways Need More Trees, Less Commercial Signs
GUEST COMMENTARY - I wish to call your attention to what I believe to be the improper noticing of meetings by the City Tourism Commission…
