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  • LA’s Response to the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai: “What, Me Worry?”

    turn to the Governor’s Office of Research and Planning for its Climate Change and Environmental Justice templates. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • The Real Estate Scams Keep Coming, Along With Aggressive Policing Of The Unhoused

    two purposes. It placates upset neighbors, and it creates building spots for highly profitable real estate projects. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • LA: Land of DIY Advocacy

    increase in home prices. (Never mind they also accept the risk of losing value, as millions did in 2008). In fact, as Dick Platkin explains here it is the government’s own policies that drive up housing costs. In a fascinating demonstration of cognitive...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tim Campbell
    • Category: LA POLITICS
    • Language: *
  • Mass Evictions Increase Homelessness.  What Is Going On?

    cover up the housing crisis, like Inside Safe, the results speak for themselves. The housing crisis is getting worse. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who reports on local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Why The Housing Crisis Continues To Get Worse

    investments in domestic real estate, the housing crisis is here to stay until its underlying causes are addressed. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Wilshire Community Plan Is Out-Of-Date, With Terrible Consequences

    for these projects cause property values, rents, and homelessness to rise. The cure is far worse than the disease. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Why Is Homelessness Still Growing In Los Angeles?

    Housing, to temporarily paper over the contradictions built into the Urban Growth Machine’s housing policies. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Despite City Council Adoption, LA’s Housing Element And Hollywood’s Community Plan Are Up For Grabs

    public lobbying? It happened in 2012, and it could happen again. Stay tuned to CityWatchLA as these stories unfold. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • WIMBY’s are the New Alchemists

    Street in My Backyard” supporters, a coalition of corporate real estate investors and willing advocates. City Watch’s Dick Platkin describes them here. WIMBY’s have finally discovered the Philosopher’s Stone, but it’s not a substance. They have invented...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tim Campbell
    • Category: LA POLITICS
    • Language: *
  • Another Crackpot Idea: Hand The I-90 Freeway Corridor Over to Real Estate Developers

    to rent or buy low-priced housing since they could not afford the new apartments in the former I-90 corridor. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • What a “Critique of YIMBY Economics” Gets Right and Wrong

    underlying reasons why YIMBY economics makes the housing crisis worse and why this outcome is nevertheless ignored. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Why LA’s Public Officials Are Trapped In A Perpetual Balancing Act

    schemes continue at City Hall? It is hard to predict, but let’s remember that sunlight is the best disinfectant. (Dick Platkin is a retired 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: NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS
    • Language: *
  • LA’s Land Use Policies Make The Climate Crisis Worse

    speculation - with little concern for the climate impacts on their constituents or the city of Los Angeles at large. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who analyses local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Is There Light At The End Of The Tunnel In Los Angeles?

    estate cons and the City Hall giveaways and plans that enable them. Since most of these groups are new, please let me ([email protected]) know about other groups that should be added to my list. Local Groups UN4LA: United Neighborhoods for Los Angeles...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Why The Homeless Crisis Will Get Worse

    programs is a long shot unless mass movements, like the LA’s Tenants Union, successfully promote it from below. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is also a board member of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • California Forecast: Population Decline in L.A. Through 2060

    upzoning cannot solve the basic cause of the housing crisis, increased income inequality in the United States. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • More Kick-The-Can-Down-The-Road Responses To The Climate Crisis

    the climate crisis worse, not better. They ensure that the worst case climate scenarios will become the new normal. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Whatever Happened to The Purple Line Transit Neighborhood Plan?

    TNP is now in hibernation. When it wakes up, Wilshire corridor residents will be ready, again, to take it on. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of United...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Climate Change Denialism Flourishes at LA’s City Hall

    in full climate change denial, and its devotion to unplanned, unmonitored real estate speculation is the new normal. (Dick Platkin is a retired Los Angeles city planner who writes about local planning issues for CityWatchLA. He is a board member of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Dick Platkin
    • Category: PLANNING WATCH LA
    • Language: *
  • Fran Drescher Is Right: “It’s Wall Street and Greed!”

    2012 litigation. July 13, 2023, Déjà vu: Three Lawsuits Again Challenge The 2023 Hollywood Community Plan Update, by Dick Platkin Let’s face reality, we cannot separate the corruptionism which has seized Los Angeles and the California courts for well...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Richard Lee Abrams
    • Category: IMPORTANT READS
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