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August 07 2025

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### [Brace Yourself For A Worse Housing Crisis](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398)

August 03 2026

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### [Be Prepared to Protect Our Democracy in November From a Trumpian Plot](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33204:be-prepared-to-protect-our-democracy-in-november-from-a-trumpian-plot&catid=9)

August 13 2026

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### [Nithya Raman Loses the Homelessness Gavel — Her Record Explains Why](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33174:nithya-raman-loses-the-homelessness-gavel-her-record-explains-why&catid=396)

August 10 2026

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 Written by Ron Stein on September 05 2019. Posted in [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=312).

##  [ Bad Energy Decisions by Mayor Garcetti Will Fuel the Homelessness Crisis ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18385:bad-energy-decisions-by-mayor-garcetti-will-fuel-the-homelessness-crisis&catid=312)

The move will make living in the City of Los Angeles more expensive for each of its four million residents. Worse, it will create a dangerous crisis for those who can least afford to stay in their homes, pushing some closer into poverty an…

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## [What’s Up with Mitch O’Farrell and His Homeless Committee Wiping Out the Homeless?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18384:what-s-up-with-mitch-o-farrell-and-his-homeless-committee-wiping-out-the-homeless&catid=312)

The Latest Regarding the homeless and vehicles, I recently covered the City’s attempts to functionally ban the homeless from living in their cars, whether it’s legal or not. And this effort was the product of CD 13’s Mitch O’Farrell. N…

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Written by Robert Hunziker on September 05 2019.

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Written by Alon Ben-Meir on September 05 2019.

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Written by Dick Platkin on September 05 2019.

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Written by Bob Gelfand on September 05 2019.

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Written by Alexandra D. Datig on September 05 2019.

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Written by The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition* on September 05 2019.

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Written by Kevin Suscavage on September 02 2019.

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Written by Jill Richardson on September 02 2019.

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on September 02 2019.

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Written by James Preston Allen on September 02 2019.

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Written by Christine Owens on September 02 2019.

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