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  • Takeaways from a Bernie Sanders Campaign Housing Panel

    the time to act is now, not in early 2021, when most Sanders supporters will return to their pre-campaign lives. (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: *
  • ‘Update the Community Plans’ is City Hall’s Version of ‘Let’s Meet for Lunch’

    to the good governance that Angelinos want and expect. So, beware when they tell you they want to meet for lunch. (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: *
  • California’s Housing Crisis and the 2020 Presidential Primaries

    as the new normal would grow, and the cocooned Sanders White House would end up with a bully pulpit, and little else. (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: *
  • Economic Inequality is Both a Cause and Consequence of the Housing Crisis

    “fake news,” and it warrants repeated rebuttals and coordinated political actions to end the investor handouts. (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: *
  • The Slow Death of a Sacramento Real Estate Bill

    will meet the same fate. This is why it is time to finally pursue the many untapped housing proposals excerpted above. (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: *
  • ‘When You Have Power, You Don’t Need Empowerment.’ An Epitaph for City Hall’s Tombstone.

    organizing issue is still alive and well. Joe Hill’s famous advice, “Don’t mourn, organize!” applies to Los Angeles. (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: *
  • The Fight for Affordable Housing Is Just as Important Here in LA!

    that's clearly car-oriented and NOT too affordable, as my fellow CityWatch writer (and urban planner extraordinaire) Dick Platkin reports. "Affordable housing" isn't just for the working poor, starving students, and seniors on a fixed income (although...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Kenneth S. Alpern
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Want to Increase Transit Ridership? Don’t Promote Expensive, Auto-Centric Apartments Near Transpo Lines.

    and Green House Gases will rise, and the real remedies will remain hidden way at METRO’s Taj Mahal and LA’s City Hall. (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: *
  • The March of the Housing Lemmings Proceeds, so Expect California’s Housing Crisis to Worsen

    course. But, nuclear war and climate change, like California’s worsening housing catastrophe, are totally avoidable. (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 Scott Wiener’s Revised Senate Bill 50 Would be a Nothing Burger

    Senate Bill 50, unless you are a real estate developer, get ready for a hefty serving of nothing burgers if it passes. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • How Real Estate Speculation Contributes to the Climate Crisis

    that local officials truly cared about the planet’s future. Honolulu, Hawaii climate photo-op for big city mayors (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: *
  • Bad Santa’s Coming to Town, with Special Gifts for His Friends

    the big financial winners through government-backed real estate schemes. What a friend they have in this bad Santa. (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: *
  • Declining METRO Transit Ridership is No Fluke - It Results from Political Decisions by Public Officials

    from a METRO public relations contact. He wanted to know the purpose of my article but did not answer my questions. (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: *
  • Two Peas in a Pod: Trump and California Dems Quibbling over the Housing Crisis

    will happen, or if the homeless crisis worsens until the country eventually implodes, as predicted by Chalmers Johnson. (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: *
  • If LA City Officials Took the Climate Crisis Seriously, What Would They Do?

    keeping fossil fuels in the ground. That requires a direct confrontation with fossil capital. There is no other way.” (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: *
  • City Hall Rediscovers Alchemy - Turns Old Commercial Real Estate into Gold.

    General Plan elements. This wonderland would send Alice’s head spinning even faster than Lewis Carrol imagined. (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: *
  • Asking the Wrong Questions about Homelessness in Los Angeles Guarantees the Wrong Answers

    but eventually history would witness the burning of “surplus” bodies, a development sadly emerging in Los Angeles. (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: *
  • Tall Tales from Los Angeles: Building Our Way Out of Homeless, Climate, and Transportation Crises

    While we consider the reasons, one thing is obvious, entire careers can be built by supporting real estate speculation. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Los Angeles Deserves Better Than a 25-year-old Public Safety Plan

    requires massive grassroots initiatives to supplant self-perpetuating political machines. So, roll up your sleeves. (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: *
  • What Hunger in Los Angeles Teaches Us About Our Housing Crisis

    public housing programs by some Presidential candidates suggests no. This circle cannot be squared much longer. (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: *
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