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  • Return to Sender: Council President Martinez’ Planning Ballot Measure

    court of the public to demand that developer giveaways be replaced with genuine programs to build low-priced housing. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why the Homeless Crisis is so Feebly Addressed in Los Angeles?

    for the up-zoners and SWAT team fans to focus on the underlying causes and genuine solutions to the housing crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Squeeze Play on Community Groups in Los Angeles

    or budgeting process to build them – even if the Biden administration showers Los Angeles with infrastructure money. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • How is “Greed is Good” Working out for Los Angeles?

    of climate change. To answer the question is “greed is good” working for Los Angeles, the obvious answer is no. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Why the Mainstream Media Tries to Fool the Public with its Misleading Reporting on the Housing Crisis

    that are at play, we have to grow our own media to the point that it can compete with the corporate bamboozlers. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Hollywood Community Plan Update – Magnet for Spurious Arguments to Justify Real Estate Speculation

    to increase transit ridership. As for Hollywood, my crystal ball is shining bright. More lawsuits are in the making. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Teleconference: City Planner Dick Platkin on Why L.A. Times Refuses to Report that SB 9 Allows 8 Units Not “Duplexes.”

    HERE at this link by noon Friday . Any problems registering email [email protected]. Former L.A. city planner Dick Platkin is a major critic of “upzoning” and “trickle-down” laws that fail to build affordable housing but DO destroy communities. Mr....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: CityWatch
    • Category: FRONT PAGE EVENTS
    • Language: *
  • Pathway to a Dystopian Los Angeles Revealed in My Conversation with a Local Fauxgressive

    it is not part of the fauxgressive lexicon. For this to happen, readers, like your, need to move into a higher gear. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Los Angeles Time Still Inflates Real Estate Bubbles

    change its spots, and apparently the Los Angeles Times cannot change its devotion to speculative real estate bubbles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Here Come the Fauxgressives! The Latest Incarnation of Wall Street in My Back Yard (WIMBYs)

    crises worse. Conditions are already bad, and if they get their way, Los Angeles will continue its downward slide. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • When City Hall Does the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason - Dumping the Miracle Mile’s ‘Transit Neighborhood Plan’           

    Update could become an unplanned mess of new, expensive apartments that make the transit and housing crises worse. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • New Lessons from LA’s McMansion Wars

    another grass roots movement to wake up the denizens of City Hall to the real estate hell enveloping Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Cut from the Same Cloth: Municipal, State, and Federal Officials Spout Urban Reaganomics to Solve the Housing Crisis

    wasting their political energy on schemes, like up-zoning, that reinforce the racial patterns they pretend to oppose. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Homelessness Now Kills More Angelenos than Homicide – Options to Address the Housing Emergency

    and parcels that could be reused for emergency housing. If you have suggestions for such sites, please send an email to [email protected], and we will forward it. 2) The “Vancouver Solution.” Progressive, tiered vacancy taxes on unoccupied TOC/Density...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Brad S. Kane and Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Big Bamboozle #2 – How LA Hopes to Extend a Real Estate Boom and Hold off its Eventual Bust

    that reveals the social consequences of hijacking the form, but not the substance, of the official planning process. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Another Big Bamboozle – the New 2021-2029 Los Angeles Housing Element?

    bamboozle, please read these two studies and then share their findings and your conclusions with elected officials. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Bound to Fail: Pawning off Urban Reaganomics as ‘Progressive’ Housing Policy

    columns are available at the CityWatch archives and https://plan-itlosangeles.blogspot.com/. Please send corrections to [email protected]) Prepped for CityWatch by Linda Abrams.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The Failed Logic of Planning in Los Angeles: Full Speed Into the Rocks

    not add up, none of this should be surprising, especially to those charged with planning the future of Los Angeles. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • As DONE Destructs, Their Incompetence Breeds Dysfunction in Lincoln Heights, Along with a Bright Spot

    He can be reached at [email protected]. PS -- I have it on good authority that my CityWatch colleague Dick Platkin, is also a founding member. This could be exciting! (Tony Butka is an Eastside community activist, who has served on a neighborhood...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Butka
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The FAIR LA Housing Plan Allows Real Estate Speculators to Profit from the Housing Crisis – It’s Sophisticated Nonsense

    the more the housing crisis will grow, and the more the LA’s infrastructure and public services will crumble. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He serves on the board of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
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