Planning Watch column for July 22, 2021.

The main problem with up-zoning to solve the housing crisis is that is doesn’t work. It makes the housing crisis worse, not better. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/22121-the-latest-false-claims-to-sanitize-speculative-real-estate-investments

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