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(Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27729-despite-city-council-adoption-las-housing-element-and-hollywoods-community-plan-are-up-for-grabs - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [WIMBY’s are the New Alchemists](https://mail.citywatchla.com/la-election-2022/27698-wimbys-are-the-new-alchemists) September 28 2023 Street in My Backyard” supporters, a coalition of corporate real estate investors and willing advocates. City Watch’s Dick Platkin describes them here. WIMBY’s have finally discovered the Philosopher’s Stone, but it’s not a substance. They have invented... https://mail.citywatchla.com/la-election-2022/27698-wimbys-are-the-new-alchemists - Type: Article - Author: Tim Campbell - Category: LA POLITICS - Language: \* - ### [Another Crackpot Idea: Hand The I-90 Freeway Corridor Over to Real Estate Developers](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27689-another-crackpot-idea-hand-the-i-90-freeway-corridor-over-to-real-estate-developers) September 28 2023 desperate to rent or buy low-priced housing since they could not afford the new apartments in the former I-90 corridor. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27689-another-crackpot-idea-hand-the-i-90-freeway-corridor-over-to-real-estate-developers - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [What a “Critique of YIMBY Economics” Gets Right and Wrong](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27643-what-a-critique-of-yimby-economics-gets-right-and-wrong) September 21 2023 the underlying reasons why YIMBY economics makes the housing crisis worse and why this outcome is nevertheless ignored. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27643-what-a-critique-of-yimby-economics-gets-right-and-wrong - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Why LA’s Public Officials Are Trapped In A Perpetual Balancing Act](https://mail.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics/27556-why-las-public-officials-are-trapped-in-a-perpetual-balancing-act) September 07 2023 schemes continue at City Hall? It is hard to predict, but let’s remember that sunlight is the best disinfectant. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics/27556-why-las-public-officials-are-trapped-in-a-perpetual-balancing-act - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS - Language: \* - ### [LA’s Land Use Policies Make The Climate Crisis Worse](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27530-las-land-use-policies-make-the-climate-crisis-worse) August 31 2023 speculation - with little concern for the climate impacts on their constituents or the city of Los Angeles at large. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who analyses local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27530-las-land-use-policies-make-the-climate-crisis-worse - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Is There Light At The End Of The Tunnel In Los Angeles?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27503-is-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-in-los-angeles) August 24 2023 therefore, restore former HUD and CRA public housing programs to shelter the overcrowded, rent gouged, and unhoused? (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who analyses local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27503-is-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-in-los-angeles - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Why The Homeless Crisis Will Get Worse](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27466-why-the-homeless-crisis-will-get-worse) August 17 2023 housing programs is a long shot unless mass movements, like the LA’s Tenants Union, successfully promote it from below. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is also a board member... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27466-why-the-homeless-crisis-will-get-worse - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [California Forecast: Population Decline in L.A. Through 2060](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27419-california-forecast-population-decline-in-l-a-through-2060) August 10 2023 Finally, upzoning cannot solve the basic cause of the housing crisis, increased income inequality in the United States. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27419-california-forecast-population-decline-in-l-a-through-2060 - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [More Kick-The-Can-Down-The-Road Responses To The Climate Crisis](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27388-more-kick-the-can-down-the-road-responses-to-the-climate-crisis) August 02 2023 the climate crisis worse, not better. They ensure that the worst case climate scenarios will become the new normal. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27388-more-kick-the-can-down-the-road-responses-to-the-climate-crisis - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Whatever Happened to The Purple Line Transit Neighborhood Plan?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27343-whatever-happened-to-the-purple-line-transit-neighborhood-plan) July 27 2023 Wilshire TNP is now in hibernation. When it wakes up, Wilshire corridor residents will be ready, again, to take it on. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27343-whatever-happened-to-the-purple-line-transit-neighborhood-plan - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Climate Change Denialism Flourishes at LA’s City Hall](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27303-climate-change-denialism-flourishes-at-las-city-hall) July 20 2023 is in full climate change denial, and its devotion to unplanned, unmonitored real estate speculation is the new normal. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27303-climate-change-denialism-flourishes-at-las-city-hall - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Fran Drescher Is Right: “It’s Wall Street and Greed!”](https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/27296-fran-drescher-is-right-its-wall-street-and-greed) July 17 2023 the 2012 litigation. July 13, 2023, Déjà vu: Three Lawsuits Again Challenge The 2023 Hollywood Community Plan Update, by Dick Platkin Let’s face reality, we cannot separate the corruptionism which has seized Los Angeles and the California courts for... https://mail.citywatchla.com/important-reads/27296-fran-drescher-is-right-its-wall-street-and-greed - Type: Article - Author: Richard Lee Abrams - Category: IMPORTANT READS - Language: \* - ### [Déjà vu: Three Lawsuits Again Challenge The 2023 Hollywood Community Plan Update](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27262-deja-vu-three-lawsuits-again-challenge-the-2023-hollywood-community-plan-update) July 13 2023 world outcomes expose these fictitious cover stories, developers still benefit from upzoning, its intended purpose. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27262-deja-vu-three-lawsuits-again-challenge-the-2023-hollywood-community-plan-update - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Eagle Rock Fireworks and Homeless Increases](https://mail.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics/27231-eagle-rock-fireworks-and-homeless-increases) July 06 2023 ‘solutions’ are obviously not working, spending zillions of dollars on things that do not work. My Citywatch colleague Dick Platkin had it spot on in his recent piece laying out why the Mayor and City Councils insistence on building more housing is not... https://mail.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics/27231-eagle-rock-fireworks-and-homeless-increases - Type: Article - Author: Tony Butka - Category: NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS - Language: \* - ### [Three New Studies On Poverty And Shortage Of Affordable Housing](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27226-three-new-studies-on-poverty-and-shortage-of-affordable-housing) July 06 2023 speculation. Until this changes, the number of unhoused, overcrowded, and rent-gouged people will continue to grow. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27226-three-new-studies-on-poverty-and-shortage-of-affordable-housing - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [LA’s Declining Quality of Life](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27189-las-declining-quality-of-life) June 29 2023 lanes. While decent planning cannot guarantee proper care of the city’s infrastructure, it is an essential first step. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27189-las-declining-quality-of-life - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [The Big Lie of Climate Change Deniers: The Crisis Is “Human-Made”](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27153-the-big-lie-of-climate-change-deniers-the-crisis-is-human-made) June 22 2023 way, the major energy companies will be toast, even if the moguls can temporarily retreat to underground bunkers. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27153-the-big-lie-of-climate-change-deniers-the-crisis-is-human-made - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Mayor Bass: 6 Months and Housing for the Unhoused is Hard to Find](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27102-mayor-bass-6-months-and-housing-for-the-unhoused-is-hard-to-find) June 15 2023 the housing crisis worse, not better. As for Angelenos, gird yourself for a further decline in the quality of life. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of... https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27102-mayor-bass-6-months-and-housing-for-the-unhoused-is-hard-to-find - Type: Article - Author: Dick Platkin - Category: PLANNING WATCH LA - Language: \* - ### [Why the White House-Congressional Debt Deal will Increase Homelessness](https://mail.citywatchla.com/planning-watch-la/27071-why-the-white-house-congressional-debt-deal-will-increase-homelessness) June 08 2023 to understand how Washington’s latest austerity budget impacts the nation’s housing crisis, including in Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who analyzes local planning issues for CityWatchLA. 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