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  • Do Angelenos Live In Squalor Because Los Angeles Is A Poor City In A Poor Country?

    they are really telling you that public housing and public infrastructure are their rock bottom budget priorities. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Housing Crisis Burns While City Council Fiddles

    programs and the reduction of economic inequality, they may need to become a roar for things to fundamentally change. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA Has Ignored Its Urban Forest. Who Will Pay The Price For This Negligence?

    a desert – where trees can flourish and provide immeasurable human and environmental payoff to rich and poor alike.” (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA Housing Element: If The City Prevails in First Legal Challenge, Will It Make A Difference?

    us this debacle, they will try to emulate those colleagues who managed to fall upward when their plans failed. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s 2021 Planning Year-in-Review.  Is the Glass Mostly Full or Mostly Empty?

    and environment, and mobility. When they don’t, the result is the bleak Los Angeles that we encounter every day. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Decarbonizing LA’s Buildings Is Overdue but Meeting Strong Political Headwinds

    zone changes designed to promote private investment in upscale, car-oriented, energy-intensive apartment buildings. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: VOICES
    • Language: *
  • Smash and Grab Versus Stack and Pack.  Who Are the Bigger Crooks?

    that skirt the law and make the housing crisis worse, but unlike smash and grab robberies, keep a low profile. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • What The Housing Crisis Reveals About U.S. Global Decline?

    times in human history, despite an abundance of Jeremiah’s who told people what was right in front of their eyes. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • LA’s New Housing Element Meets A Bump In The Road

    of updated Community Plans, Angelinos should brace themselves for a low-income housing crisis that will get worse. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Wall Street Is Still In Your Backyard, Via The Police, When It Comes To The Worsening Housing Crisis.

    concocting more whoppers to convince their victims that giveaways to developers will eventually trickle down to them. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Did Anyone at LA’s City Hall Get the COP26 Climate Memos?

    mitigation, not maximizing the profits of the real estate speculators who make LA’s City Hall their second home. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Real Estate Transfer Tax Could Help Solve LA’s Housing Crisis

    but in itself, is not enough to reverse increasing economic inequality, a major cause of the housing crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Fiasco Foretold – LA’s 2021-2029 Housing Element

    and the new Los Angeles Housing Element is designed to extend housing policies and programs already on the books. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A City Hall Whodunit: What Economic and Political Forces are Responsible for Climate Change?

    housing, lifts the price of remaining housing, and taxes infrastructure and public services to the breaking point. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Can More Speculative Real Estate Bubbles Rescue LA’s Economy?  Not Likely.

    will expand to include more that those previously felled by COVID-19 or already priced out of the housing market. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why LA’s Housing Policies Make the Housing Crisis Worse

    and related zoning giveaways through discretionary approvals, the Housing Element, and Community Plan Updates. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Crackpot Realism in LA Housing Crisis

    hurdle, it will not easily overcome the next barriers, that we live in complicated and difficult to predict times. * Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A 12-step Program to Create a Housing Crisis

    but that it could be reversed so everyone will have a roof over their head, regardless of their income or location. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Boosting Profits: Why Developers’ Cry to ‘End Exclusionary Zoning’ is a Hoax

    If not, the spinmeisters will need to burn the midnight oil to explain why their bosses’ best intentions went awry. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Mission Accomplished? How Could Anything Possibly Go Wrong with California’s and LA’s Real Estate Gimmicks?

    and mortgage payment extractors, at least until this country implodes from imperial overreach and internal decay. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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