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  • Did Anyone at LA’s City Hall Get the COP26 Climate Memos?

    mitigation, not maximizing the profits of the real estate speculators who make LA’s City Hall their second home. (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: *
  • A Real Estate Transfer Tax Could Help Solve LA’s Housing Crisis

    but in itself, is not enough to reverse increasing economic inequality, a major cause of the housing crisis. (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: *
  • A Fiasco Foretold – LA’s 2021-2029 Housing Element

    and the new Los Angeles Housing Element is designed to extend housing policies and programs already on the books. (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: *
  • A City Hall Whodunit: What Economic and Political Forces are Responsible for Climate Change?

    housing, lifts the price of remaining housing, and taxes infrastructure and public services to the breaking point. (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: *
  • Can More Speculative Real Estate Bubbles Rescue LA’s Economy?  Not Likely.

    will expand to include more that those previously felled by COVID-19 or already priced out of the housing market. (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 LA’s Housing Policies Make the Housing Crisis Worse

    and related zoning giveaways through discretionary approvals, the Housing Element, and Community Plan Updates. (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: *
  • Crackpot Realism in LA Housing Crisis

    hurdle, it will not easily overcome the next barriers, that we live in complicated and difficult to predict times. * 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: *
  • A 12-step Program to Create a Housing Crisis

    but that it could be reversed so everyone will have a roof over their head, regardless of their income or location. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Boosting Profits: Why Developers’ Cry to ‘End Exclusionary Zoning’ is a Hoax

    If not, the spinmeisters will need to burn the midnight oil to explain why their bosses’ best intentions went awry. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Mission Accomplished? How Could Anything Possibly Go Wrong with California’s and LA’s Real Estate Gimmicks?

    and mortgage payment extractors, at least until this country implodes from imperial overreach and internal decay. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Los Angeles: Who Has the Right to Live in the City?

    protection of a small number of neighborhoods, gentrification continues to make a yearly loss of 5,000 units. City Planner Platkin argues that though Los Angeles city and county are allocating funds to build privately operated affordable housing, at...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Julia Stein
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Fauxgressives on the march, winning recent Neighborhood Council elections.

    programs all demand overnment play an expanded, not a reduced, role in resolving the housing and transit crises. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • A Municipal Baby Step to Mitigate Climate Change

    to identify and oppose than the know-nothings who dismiss the natural science explanations for the climate crisis. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Rolling out the Red Carpet for Real Estate Investors: Q & A on CA State Senate Bills 9 & 10

    bills 9 and 10.’ It's now or never. Tell your legislator to save your home, your neighborhood, your community.” (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • Climate Crisis is Here: Any Chance City Hall Will Take Notice?

    General Plan updates to grease the wheels of real estate speculation – instead of reducing Green House Gas emissions. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: IMPORTANT READS
    • Language: *
  • One More Justification for Trickle-Down Housing Policies: They Boost the California Economy

    but minimally we can avoid making things even worse by giving away more of the store to real estate speculators. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The Latest False Claims to Sanitize Speculative Real Estate Investments

    they want to maximize their profits, which also explains why they lobby for up-zoning and related zoning giveaways. (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: *
  • City Hall Handouts to Real estate Investors Promote ‘Equity’?

    for the worsening housing and climate crises are political and self-imposed, which means they could be changed. (Dick Platkin is a former Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatch. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: LOS ANGELES
    • Language: *
  • The Housing Crisis in LA and the Policies that Make it Worse

    belief that private investors are motivated by social goals, not the maximization of their real estate profits. (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 Housing Crisis Reveals How Much the Democrats Have Adopted Republican Policies

    and the active public realize they have been subjected to a host of real estate scams? That is the open question. (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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