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The Public Understands The Housing Crisis Better Than The Electeds
PLANNING WATCH - Despite its new publisher and stunning circulation decline, the Los Angeles Times has continued to shill for real estate speculators…

Federal Judge David Carter, Nemesis of City Hall’s Skid Row Homeless Programs
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How Inadequate Community Plan Updates Worsen Los Angeles' Housing Crisis
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Two Ways for US Government Officials To Create Homelessness: One Gradual, The Other Instant
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LA’s Measure HLA will not work. That's the best reason for opposing it.
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Ode to the Los Angeles Times: On its last legs, it still shills for real estate speculators
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Crocodile Tears for The Homeless: A Pretext For Rescinding Adopted Zoning And Environmental Laws
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Los Angeles City Hall, Home of the City’s Neglected but Nevertheless Mandatory General Plan.
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LA’s Response to the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai: “What, Me Worry?”
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The Real Estate Scams Keep Coming, Along With Aggressive Policing Of The Unhoused
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