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  • Los Angeles: Who Has the Right to Live in the City?

    protection of a small number of neighborhoods, gentrification continues to make a yearly loss of 5,000 units. City Planner Platkin argues that though Los Angeles city and county are allocating funds to build privately operated affordable housing, at...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22448-los-angeles-who-has-the-right-to-live-in-the-city-2

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Julia Stein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Fauxgressives on the march, winning recent Neighborhood Council elections.

    programs all demand overnment play an expanded, not a reduced, role in resolving the housing and transit crises. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22421-fauxgressives-on-the-march-winning-recent-neighborhood-council-elections

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

  • A Municipal Baby Step to Mitigate Climate Change

    to identify and oppose than the know-nothings who dismiss the natural science explanations for the climate crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22345-a-municipal-baby-step-to-mitigate-climate-change

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

  • Rolling out the Red Carpet for Real Estate Investors: Q & A on CA State Senate Bills 9 & 10

    bills 9 and 10.’ It's now or never. Tell your legislator to save your home, your neighborhood, your community.” (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22286-rolling-out-the-red-carpet-for-real-estate-investors-q-a-on-ca-state-senate-bills-9-10

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

  • Climate Crisis is Here: Any Chance City Hall Will Take Notice?

    General Plan updates to grease the wheels of real estate speculation – instead of reducing Green House Gas emissions. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/22230-climate-crisis-is-here-any-chance-city-hall-will-take-notice

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: IMPORTANT READS
    • Language: *

  • One More Justification for Trickle-Down Housing Policies: They Boost the California Economy

    but minimally we can avoid making things even worse by giving away more of the store to real estate speculators. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22180-one-more-justification-for-trickle-down-housing-policies-they-boost-the-california-economy

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

  • The Latest False Claims to Sanitize Speculative Real Estate Investments

    they want to maximize their profits, which also explains why they lobby for up-zoning and related zoning giveaways. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22121-the-latest-false-claims-to-sanitize-speculative-real-estate-investments

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

  • City Hall Handouts to Real estate Investors Promote ‘Equity’?

    for the worsening housing and climate crises are political and self-imposed, which means they could be changed. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22070-city-hall-handouts-to-real-estate-investors-promote-equity

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

  • The Housing Crisis in LA and the Policies that Make it Worse

    belief that private investors are motivated by social goals, not the maximization of their real estate profits. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/22027-how-albert-einstein-guides-city-hall-s-approach-to-the-housing-crisis

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

  • The Housing Crisis Reveals How Much the Democrats Have Adopted Republican Policies

    and the active public realize they have been subjected to a host of real estate scams? That is the open question. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21988-the-housing-crisis-reveals-how-much-the-democrats-have-adopted-republican-policies

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

  • Raman Recall Remorse

    things have happened, and this story does not yet have an ending, even for those, like me, with Raman Recall Remorse. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21925-raman-recall-remorse

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

  • Real Estate Developers’ New Goal is Promoting Equity, not Pocketing Serious Profits – Uh huh

    will lift-up the poor. It did not work for Lyndon Johnson or Ronald Reagan, and it will not work this time either. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21887-real-estate-developers-new-goal-is-promoting-equity-not-pocketing-serious-profits-uh-huh

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

  • As Metro Plows Over Eagle Rock, Where Is Kevin de León?

    yet another TOC (Transit Oriented Communities) development. A great rebuttal to that hype would be a post by our own Dick Platkin. Check out the full article, it’s a great read. “Measure JJJ’s Flaws: Measure JJJ bears so little resemblance to what LA’s...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21858-as-metro-plows-over-eagle-rock-where-is-kevin-de-leon

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Butka
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • ‘Wealthfare’ is Alive and Well in LA – It Goes by the Name of Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) Density Bonuses

    such as Community Plan Implementation Ordinances or Community Benefit Agreements appended to updated community plans. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21853-wealthfare-is-alive-and-well-in-la-it-goes-by-the-name-of-transit-oriented-communities-toc-density-bonuses

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

  • Field Guide to identify Fauxgressives concerned about homelessness.  Can you spot the crocodile tears?

    their proposals are giveaways to developers, the fauxgressives will be part of the problem, not part of the solution. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21840-field-guide-to-identify-fauxgressives-concerned-about-homelessness-can-you-spot-the-crocodile-tears

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

  • The Sun is Setting on LA’s Boosters - It’s About Time.

    housing and more consumer purchasing power for the victims – not the beneficiaries -- of the housing crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21822-the-sun-is-setting-on-la-s-boosters-it-s-about-time

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

  • Discredited Planning Concepts Don’t Die, They Just Resurface at City Hall to Promote Real Estate Speculation.

    to devote their energy to the construction of low-priced housing financed, built, and operated by the public sector. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21787-discredited-planning-concepts-don-t-die-they-just-resurface-at-city-hall-to-promote-real-estate-speculation

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

  • How to Spend Billions and Still Ignore LA’s Fissured Streets, Sidewalks, Water Mains, and Power Grids

    types might become sore losers, the public benefits will far outweigh a major misallocation of public resources. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21745-how-to-spend-billions-and-still-ignore-la-s-fissured-streets-sidewalks-water-mains-and-power-grids

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

  • ‘Some Men Rob You with a Six-Gun, and Some with a Fountain Pen.’ – Woodie Guthrie

    apartments. If you ever wonder who the major crooks are in Los Angeles, remind yourself to look up, not down. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21702-some-men-rob-you-with-a-six-gun-and-some-with-a-fountain-pen-woodie-guthrie

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

  • Judge David Carter’s Homeless Decision: In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King

    officials, like Eric Garcetti, let us remember that in the land of the blind, this one-eyed judge is king. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/21660-judge-david-carter-s-homeless-decision-in-the-country-of-the-blind-the-one-eyed-man-is-king

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