PLANNING WATCH / PLAN-IT LOS ANGELES

The Los Angeles City Council is unable to act on homelessness, other than making the rich richer through up-zoning and then dispatching the police to the resulting homeless encampments. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/23606-housing-crisis-worsens-while-la-s-city-council-turns-to-lapd-for-political-backup?fbclid=IwAR249453vDO1g1n6oODc9IkvbfVGtHLAkf4UwZxzKk84hXwk9ILcSwmAHbc

2021 was a good year for the gentrifiers in the Los Angeles region. For everyone else, not so good. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/23433-la-s-2021-planning-year-in-review-is-the-glass-mostly-full-or-mostly-empty

Big city planning departments, like LA’s, have abdicated their broad role. Instead they limit themselves to regulating private real estate projects, while ignoring infrastructure and the climate crisis. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/23433-la-s-2021-planning-year-in-review-is-the-glass-mostly-full-or-mostly-empty

The housing crisis – in LA and elsewhere -- results from deliberate decisions at all levels of government. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/22565-a-12-step-program-to-create-a-housing-crisis

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

Local officials have responded to the elimination of public housing programs and increased economic inequality by promoting expensive, in-fill apartments. This is how they made an imposed housing crisis even worse. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/22027-how-albert-einstein-guides-city-hall-s-approach-to-the-housing-crisis

In Los Angeles the recall of a new Councilmember with a great left head fake to camouflage her objective support for real estate speculators and greater Green House Gas emissions is poorly understood, especially by the red-baiters after her. https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/21925-raman-recall-remorse