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Why Are Major Skid Row Projects Invisible?
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (700+ words) SKID ROW - A few weeks ago, a portion of my Title VI Civil Rights complaint against the City of Los Angeles was accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Complaint No. 21-26-R9). My complaint focuses on disparities involving environmental review, trees, and…...
CityWatch LA - $1 Billion Later, Congress Comes Knocking: Los Angelesâ Homelessness Machine Faces Its Day of Reckoning
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (826+ words) THE BOTTOM LINE - For years, Los Angeles taxpayers have been told the same thing about homelessness: Give us more money. Give us more time. Trust the system. The money came. The results did not. Now Washington wants answers. The House…...
California Can’t Insure Its Homes. Now Sacramento Wants to Insure the
2+ week, 2+ day ago (399+ words) INSURANCE EMERGENCY - California homeowners are struggling to find affordable coverage while Sacramento explores a new frontier in climate policy: insuring urban forests. The question is not whether trees matter. It is whether California has its priorities straight. California has an…...
Los Angeles Can Build Homes Without Losing Its Greenest Safety Net
2+ week, 5+ day ago (809+ words) HOUSING - Los Angeles has a housing crisis. It also faces mounting pressure over water, wildfire safety, and open space. The debate over the future of the Woodland Hills Country Club makes the city grapple with all four issues simultaneously. The…...
Missing Middle. LA City Planning’s New Approach to “Attainable” Housin
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1688+ words) MY TAKE - As if Sacramento’s relentless parade of housing-streamlining legislation hasn’t disrupted Los Angeles neighborhoods enough, here comes Missing Middle. Holy hell. What now? Apparently, LA City Planning looked at SB 9, SB 684, SB 1123 and the rest of Sacramento’s grand experiment…...
Removing 12 Section 41.18 Zones Was the Wrong Decision
3+ week, 2+ day ago (694+ words) Tim Gaspar is a candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 3 in the November 3, 2026 election. He is running against Barri Worth Girvan. This commentary reflects the author’s views and does not necessarily constitute a CityWatch endorsement. On August 18, the Los…...
Venice Residents Demand Action on Troubled Supportive Housing
3+ week, 2+ day ago (576+ words) WESTSIDE - Area residents came out in large numbers Tuesday evening to protest the current criminal, and unsanitary conditions at 2467-2471 Lincoln Boulevard, which also occupies the offices of SPY, or Safe Place for Youth Living. The Venice Neighborhood Council met Tuesday…...
Planning by Extinction: How LA Streamlined the Public Out
4+ week, 2+ day ago (1645+ words) MY TAKE - “The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.” — Louis D. Brandeis, April 14, 1903; later U.S. Supreme Court Justice Legally, they are different things. But when an…...
You Bought the Home - Sacramento Changed the Rules
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (1628+ words) INVESTIGATIVE PERSPECTIVE - Drive through the beautiful community of Sherwood Forest in Northridge, and it is easy to understand what generations of zoning and planning laws were intended to protect. The neighborhood is known for its large residential lots, mature trees,…...
$4.4 Billion Later: Inside the Broken Machinery of Los Angeles’ Homel
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (632+ words) THE BOTTOM LINE - When Karen Bass became mayor of Los Angeles in December 2022, she declared a state of emergency on homelessness and later described the crisis she inherited as a “hot mess.” Nearly four years later, the description still fits....