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  • McMansions Still Proliferate In Los Angeles, Driving Up Housing Costs, Homelessness, and Climate Change

    for these changes to appear there must be enormous pressure from below on Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Unpacking LA's Housing Crisis: Mismanagement and Unfulfilled Promises Leave Thousands Homeless

    actual construction, as explained by Zelda Bronstein at 48hills.com. I highly recommend fellow CityWatch columnist Dick Platkin for his ongoing reporting of the policies keeping affordable housing out of reach of working class Angelinos. There is...

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    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Good Grief. VIP’s Offer Inane Fixes For Homelessness And Climate Change

    nostrums, like Public Finance Authorities, for solving the housing crisis, homelessness will continue to rise. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United Neighborhoods...

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  • City Hall’s Housing Policies Led to LAUSD Enrollment Decline

    Angeles will therefore lose families with school-aged children because they have been priced out of housing and move. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • When LA City Hall Pols Step Into The Ring Of Foreign Policy

    Yaroslavsky’s motion, since it runs counter to the two-state solution touted by the Council on Foreign Relations. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Real Estate Speculators Boost Profits by Bypassing Local Zoning Laws

    it won’t work. The reasons are laid out above, and, if adopted, it will make the nation’s homeless crisis even worse. (Dick Platkin is a retired LA city planner. He reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Homelessness and the Million Dollar Question

    policies like affordable housing. You’d advocate for more public housing projects, as fellow CityWatch columnist Dick Platkin does. (For the purposes of our experiment, we’ll exempt housing policies and programs from our $1 million limit since they...

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  • Residents Of LA’s Pico-Midvale Neighborhood Propose Alternative Temporary Homeless Site

    eventually located in West Los Angeles. (This Planning Watch column is based on a document provided by Barbara Broide. Dick Platkin is a retired city planner who reports on local planning issues in LA for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Livable Communities: Developer Giveaways In A Slick And Deceptive Package

    for unlivable communities with more homeless people sleeping on broken sidewalks, next to dilapidated streets. (Dick Platkin is a retired city planner who reports on local planning issues in LA for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Why Don’t The Homeless Move Into Vacant Homes And Apartments?

    elected officials finally realize that the deregulation of local zoning laws is a major cause of the housing crisis? (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Homelessness and the Failure of Mainstream Media

    and homelessness. Of course, my fellow CityWatch LA columnists have done yeoman’s work calling the City to account. Dick Platkin, a former City planner, eloquently writes about failed housing policies that remove, rather than add, affordable housing...

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    • Category: LOS ANGELES
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  • Why LA’s Infrastructure is in such Bad Shape - Part 2

    are not a guarantee that LA’s decrepit infrastructure will be mended, these are critical steps in that direction. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Why LA’s Infrastructure Is in Such Bad Shape

    greasing the wheels of real estate speculation, they no longer notice the urban blight that has overtaken the city? (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • The Long Shadow of LA’s 1992 Civil Disturbance

    desperation -- Mayor Bass called on local philanthropies and LA’s wealthiest residents to pay for low-income housing. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of...

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  • The Public Understands The Housing Crisis Better Than The Electeds

    Hall initiatives I listed above to weaken these laws either make no difference or worsen the housing crisis worse. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Has Mayor Bass’ ED1 Emergency Homeless Ordinance Succeeded?

    neighborhoods, and provides little affordable housing for the growing numbers of people who desperately need it. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • Federal Judge David Carter, Nemesis of City Hall’s Skid Row Homeless Programs

    get worse. This is not a mystery. It is painfully obvious to those who see beyond City Hall’s self-serving ignorance. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of...

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    • Author: Dick Platkin
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  • How Inadequate Community Plan Updates Worsen Los Angeles' Housing Crisis

    owners to sell cheap, not the prospects of developers replacing single-family homes with apartment buildings. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Why Homelessness and Traffic Get Steadily Worse In Los Angeles

    traffic congestion, developers and their supporters shrug their shoulders while they hawk the next real estate deal. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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  • Two Ways for US Government Officials To Create Homelessness: One Gradual, The Other Instant

    their residents. The difference between this and failed domestic housing policies is quantitative, not qualitative. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

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