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  • California's New Gold Rush: Middlemen Cashing In on the Homelessness Crisis

    developers have benefitted from measures advertised to ease the housing crisis, but as fellow CityWatch columnist Dick Platkin points out, few truly affordable units have been built. In 1849, San Francisco was filled with huge tent encampments where...

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  • LA’s New Zoning Code Is Under Review At The City Attorney’s Office

    was nothing more than a “feel good” ruse. It is a great cover story for raising property values through deregulation. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner, who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Urban Forest Blues in Los Angeles

    storm runoff, the loss of shade, and the destruction of urban habitat are no longer a debate. They are a must.” (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner, who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • LA’s City Planning Commission Approves A Zoning Program That Makes Homelessness Worse

    be constructed in residential neighborhoods where it was not intended and where old infrastructure cannot support it. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner, who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Why Homeless Programs, Like LA County‘s Measure A, Fail

    laws, and the restoration of public housing programs, they require major political and economic changes to happen. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner, who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • City Hall Again Selling Off Public Sidewalk Rights To The Sign Industry

    Better Los Angeles lawsuit opposing the STAP program. BASED ON COMMENTS, I WILL POST FUTURE CORRECTIONS TO THIS COLUMN. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Human Rights Watch Report on Homelessness in Los Angeles, “You have to move!”

    of houselessness is an admission that treating housing as a commodity, not a human right, is a failed housing policy. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of...

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  • Climate Change Has Arrived.  Efforts To Counter It Are Faltering

    for the next century and beyond.” What LARC wrote in 2016 is still relevant. The ball remains in City Hall’s court. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner who reports on planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United Neighborhoods...

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  • The Country’s Housing Crisis Is Getting Worse, But It Is Hardly New

    out of housing. This is why programs to reduce homeless have failed. They only treat symptoms and ignore root causes. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Housing Element Implementation Ordinance - LA’s Future Is Up For Grabs

    corridors, to meet the State’s housing goals, without densifying the zoning in existing residential neighborhoods. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • McMansions Still Proliferate In Los Angeles, Driving Up Housing Costs, Homelessness, and Climate Change

    for these changes to appear there must be enormous pressure from below on Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Unpacking LA's Housing Crisis: Mismanagement and Unfulfilled Promises Leave Thousands Homeless

    actual construction, as explained by Zelda Bronstein at 48hills.com. I highly recommend fellow CityWatch columnist Dick Platkin for his ongoing reporting of the policies keeping affordable housing out of reach of working class Angelinos. There is...

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  • Good Grief. VIP’s Offer Inane Fixes For Homelessness And Climate Change

    nostrums, like Public Finance Authorities, for solving the housing crisis, homelessness will continue to rise. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United Neighborhoods...

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  • City Hall’s Housing Policies Led to LAUSD Enrollment Decline

    Angeles will therefore lose families with school-aged children because they have been priced out of housing and move. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • When LA City Hall Pols Step Into The Ring Of Foreign Policy

    Yaroslavsky’s motion, since it runs counter to the two-state solution touted by the Council on Foreign Relations. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Real Estate Speculators Boost Profits by Bypassing Local Zoning Laws

    it won’t work. The reasons are laid out above, and, if adopted, it will make the nation’s homeless crisis even worse. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Homelessness and the Million Dollar Question

    policies like affordable housing. You’d advocate for more public housing projects, as fellow CityWatch columnist Dick Platkin does. (For the purposes of our experiment, we’ll exempt housing policies and programs from our $1 million limit since they...

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  • Residents Of LA’s Pico-Midvale Neighborhood Propose Alternative Temporary Homeless Site

    eventually located in West Los Angeles. (This Planning Watch column is based on a document provided by Barbara Broide. Dick Platkin is a retired city planner who reports on local planning issues in LA for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Livable Communities: Developer Giveaways In A Slick And Deceptive Package

    yourself for unlivable communities with more homeless people sleeping on broken sidewalks, next to dilapidated streets. (Dick Platkin is a retired city planner who reports on local planning issues in LA for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Why Don’t The Homeless Move Into Vacant Homes And Apartments?

    elected officials finally realize that the deregulation of local zoning laws is a major cause of the housing crisis? (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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