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  • Real Estate Industry Camp Followers Fabricate Claims About Housing Crisis to Weaken Land Use Laws

    is down, especially in neighborhoods, like Hollywood, with the new, up-scale apartments that the WIMBYs celebrate. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/26227-real-estate-industry-camp-followers-fabricate-claims-about-housing-crisis-to-weaken-land-use-laws

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • LA’s 2022 Planning Year in Review

    its multi-billion dollar mass transit projects, does not fund or build planned first-last mile public improvements. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/26195-la-s-2022-planning-year-in-review

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • The Homeless Crisis: What Should the Mayor Do? Address Causes, Not Symptoms

    peace with the entrenched City Hall land use policies that promote homeless-inducing speculative apartment buildings? (Dick Platkin (rhplatkin@gmail.com) is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/26159-the-homeless-crisis-what-should-the-mayor-do-address-causes-not-symptoms

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • Real Estate Scams Purporting to Fix Homelessness

    use, like Livable Communities, or will they focus on stopping gentrification and evictions caused by deregulation? (Dick Platkin (rhplatkin@gmail.com) is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/26112-real-estate-scams-purporting-to-fix-homelessness

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • LA’s McMansions Cause Housing Costs to Rise, Homelessness and Overcrowding

    won’t happen on their own. They will require enormous pressure from below on the new Mayor and revamped City Council. (Dick Platkin (rhplatkin@gmail.com) is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/26079-la-s-mcmansions-cause-housing-costs-to-rise-homelessness-and-overcrowding

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • What Mayor-Elect Karen Bass Is Up Against!

    like parking lots and pedestrian access ways to stations. Good luck, Karen Bass, since you will need lots of it. Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/26030-what-mayor-elect-karen-bass-is-up-against

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • LA City Hall’s Dilemma.  Corruption Served In Bite-Sized Bits Or Giant Portions?

    level. The open question is whether it will collapse on its own or whether a fed-up public will speed-up its demise. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25991-la-city-hall-s-dilemma-corruption-served-in-bite-sized-bits-or-giant-portions

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • Modest Proposals For Mayor-Elect Karen Bass And The Reconstituted City Council

    applied to Los Angeles. For this to happen, however, City Hall must overcome political, not technical barriers. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25944-modest-proposals-for-mayor-elect-karen-bass-and-the-reconstituted-city-council

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • City Hall: LA’s Newly Elected Begin in January - Check Your Optimism at the Door

    in LA growing homelessness is an acceptable tradeoff when City Hall pulls out the stops for real estate speculators. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the board of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25905-city-hall-la-s-newly-elected-begin-in-january-check-your-optimism-at-the-door

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • New York Times on LA’s Housing Crisis.  Even a Broken Clock Is Correct Twice a Day

    to sleep on sidewalks, alleys, or in their cars, where over 1000 of them die each year from disease and exposure. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25867-new-york-times-on-la-s-housing-crisis-even-a-broken-clock-is-correct-twice-a-day

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • LA Times' Overcrowding Report Gets a Lot Right, But Its Remedies Make It Worse

    by the termination of HUD public housing programs during the Nixon and subsequent presidential administrations. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25810-la-times-overcrowding-report-gets-a-lot-right-but-its-remedies-make-it-worse

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • Forcing Bigoted Politicians to Resign is Easy, Rooting Out Racist Policies, Programs, and Practices is Hard.

    Angeles needs are elected officials intent on rooting out racist programs and practices, not aggrandizing themselves. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25775-forcing-bigoted-politicians-to-resign-are-easy-rooting-out-racist-policies-programs-and-practices-are-hard

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • To the Members of LA City Council from United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles

    President United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles UN4LA Board: Casey Maddren, President Cherilyn Smith, Treasurer Richard Platkin, Secretary Annie Gagen Jack Humphreville Kim Lamorie Gina K. Thornburg

    https://www.citywatchla.com/voices/25716-to-the-members-of-la-city-council-from-united-neighborhoods-for-los-angeles

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Casey Maddren
    • Category: VOICES
    • Language: *

  • Climate Change Is Here. Can Someone Please Tell Those In Charge?

    governments are either unable or unwilling to understand and respond to current and anticipated climate crises. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of United...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25664-climate-change-is-here-can-someone-please-tell-those-in-charge

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • Who Controls City Government In Los Angeles?  Stay Tuned To Find Out.

    green light for real estate speculation. This is why I say, “Stay tuned!” if you still wonder who controls City Hall. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/cw/planning-watch-la/25600-who-controls-city-government-in-los-angeles-stay-tuned-to-find-out

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *

  • What Do Magicians, Card Sharks, And City Hall Have In Common?

    was the essence of forgotten Measure S, the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, which went before LA’s voters in 2017. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/25547-what-do-magicians-card-sharks-and-city-hall-have-in-common

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

  • Status Report: The 17 Mile Long Ventura/Cahuenga Boulevard Specific Plan Is 30 Years Old

    PLANNING WATCH - The Planning Report’s 30 year old article by Richard Platkin on the Ventura/Cahuenga Boulevard Specific Plan is still mostly current and correct. It notes that most of the "planning" along the boulevard has been done by the private...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/25523-status-report-the-17-mile-long-ventura-cahuenga-boulevard-specific-plan-is-30-years-old

    • Type: Article
    • Author: John Issakson
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *

  • Homeless Numbers Are Up Again In LA, And City Hall Wonders Why

    crisis as a strictly local issue, even though the main causes (#’s 1, 2, and 3 above) are statewide and nationwide. ( Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/25503-homeless-numbers-are-up-again-in-la-and-city-hall-wonders-why

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

  • Bass’ And Caruso’s “Solutions” To Homelessness Explain Why LA’s Housing Crisis Is Getting Worse

    purchases of existing housing, preserve existing low-cost housing, and stop the mansionization of LA neighborhoods. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He serves on the boards of...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/25442-bass-and-caruso-s-solutions-to-homelessness-explain-why-la-s-housing-crisis-is-getting-worse

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

  • City Hall’s Fanciful Justifications for its Real Estate Scams

    projects ever completed and then rented to vetted low-tenants? If you can answer these questions, please let me know (rhplatkin@gmail.com) since my research came up dry. If every low-income project approved by City Planning were built, there would be...

    https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/25404-city-hall-s-fanciful-justifications-for-its-real-estate-scams

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