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  • 120 Pages Of LA Times’ Real Estate Ads Shine A Light On The Housing Crisis

    prices that give rise to both the LA Times real estate advertising sections and to homelessness and overcrowding. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

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  • The Hidden Costs Of Real Estate Speculation: Homelessness, Rent Gouging, And Over-Crowding

    who preceded them, go with the flow? We don’t know, and this is why public pressure will hopefully make a difference. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • The Hollywood Area Reveals Why Trickle-Down Housing Policies Don’t Work

    housing programs. Prevent real estate speculators from buying up houses and apartments. The ball is in their court. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • How Segregated Is Los Angeles? Do Proposed Fixes Make Things Better Or Worse?

    them to fully document these trends. It would pound yet another nail into the coffin of up-zoning’s false promises. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • Another Argument For Real Estate Giveaways - They Promote Equality

    is the price we pay for “progress.” especially the construction of still more expensive, high-rise apartment towers. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • Mystery Solved. Why Residential Up-Zoning Fails To Reduce Homelessness

    song from Cabaret “Money Makes the World Go Round” is just as valid today as it was a century ago in Weimar Germany. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • History Repeats - The Not-So-New Hollywood Community Plan

    services, City Hall should brace itself for another defeat at the hands of Hollywood residents and their supporters. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • The Old Refrain “Update LA’s Community Plans” Repeats

    Reducing evictions of existing low-income tenants. Extending LA’s eviction moratorium past January 31, 2023. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • How Bad Will Conditions Get?

    respond to them, instead of passively allowing events to envelope us, our families, and our communities. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • Real Estate Industry Camp Followers Fabricate Claims About Housing Crisis to Weaken Land Use Laws

    is down, especially in neighborhoods, like Hollywood, with the new, up-scale apartments that the WIMBYs celebrate. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • LA’s 2022 Planning Year in Review

    its multi-billion dollar mass transit projects, does not fund or build planned first-last mile public improvements. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • The Homeless Crisis: What Should the Mayor Do? Address Causes, Not Symptoms

    peace with the entrenched City Hall land use policies that promote homeless-inducing speculative apartment buildings? (Dick Platkin ([email protected]) is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • Real Estate Scams Purporting to Fix Homelessness

    use, like Livable Communities, or will they focus on stopping gentrification and evictions caused by deregulation? (Dick Platkin ([email protected]) is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • LA’s McMansions Cause Housing Costs to Rise, Homelessness and Overcrowding

    won’t happen on their own. They will require enormous pressure from below on the new Mayor and revamped City Council. (Dick Platkin ([email protected]) is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • What Mayor-Elect Karen Bass Is Up Against!

    like parking lots and pedestrian access ways to stations. Good luck, Karen Bass, since you will need lots of it. Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • LA City Hall’s Dilemma.  Corruption Served In Bite-Sized Bits Or Giant Portions?

    level. The open question is whether it will collapse on its own or whether a fed-up public will speed-up its demise. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • Modest Proposals For Mayor-Elect Karen Bass And The Reconstituted City Council

    applied to Los Angeles. For this to happen, however, City Hall must overcome political, not technical barriers. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • City Hall: LA’s Newly Elected Begin in January - Check Your Optimism at the Door

    in LA growing homelessness is an acceptable tradeoff when City Hall pulls out the stops for real estate speculators. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • New York Times on LA’s Housing Crisis.  Even a Broken Clock Is Correct Twice a Day

    to sleep on sidewalks, alleys, or in their cars, where over 1000 of them die each year from disease and exposure. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
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  • LA Times' Overcrowding Report Gets a Lot Right, But Its Remedies Make It Worse

    by the termination of HUD public housing programs during the Nixon and subsequent presidential administrations. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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