A dramatic surge in homelessness in Los Angeles in 2019 will be announced next week, defying every promise made by the Garcetti Administration. Officials called off tonight’s expected release of …
Should Los Angeles Homeless Housing Cost Half a Million Dollars ($500,000) Per Unit?
KCRW’s week-long series on homelessness raises stark truths about the cost of building HHH units for the homeless, which the Coalition to Preserve LA has been shouting about for months. This …
Save Parker Center Initiative for the Homeless Pulls a Big Response
The launch of a Los Angeles ballot initiative to save long-empty Parker Center from demolition and renovate it as the Tom Bradley Center to house the homeless drew a big …
Ballot Initiative to Save Parker Center for Homeless Housing
A growing coalition of civic leaders on Thursday at 10 am will unveil a ballot initiative to save historic Parker Center, the former LAPD headquarters, from the wrecking ball, and …
Mayor Garcetti’s NIMBY Resistance to Using Parker Center for Homeless Housing
In 2018 there is new urgency for saving Parker Center, the midcentury masterpiece by Welton Becket that has stood empty for years a block from City Hall, and which Mayor Eric Garcetti …
California Cities Poor and Rich Oppose WienerWorld, Senate Bill 827
California cities poor and rich are piling on to oppose Senate Bill 827 (known as WienerWorld) a YIMBY law that would wipe out affordable housing (so boring), historic zones (way …
Garcetti fibs to KNX after ads in the L.A. Times attack his homeless FAIL
Mayor Eric Garcetti, we implore you to stop promising to “end homelessness” for the third time since 2013 (see footnote 1 below) while you and city leaders are in a …
Curren Price, City Council District 9, Vetos Homeless Housing for Seniors
We all learned from Los Angeles Times reporter Emily Alpert-Reyes of a slyly concocted “veto letter” that allows each Los Angeles City Council member, in this case Curren Price, to write a ban any …
Homeless Crisis Misunderstood by L.A. Times
Thank you to the L.A. Times Editorial Board for its homeless series that focuses our missing-in-action City Hall leadership on L.A.’s humanitarian catastrophe. We agree that voter approval, 16 long months ago, of …
Herb Wesson Tweets #The222Pledge? This is a Shelter Crisis, Not a PR Problem
City Council President Herb Wesson, who has watched Mayor Eric Garcetti drag his feet for more than a year, building NO units of housing to shelter the homeless with voter-approved …
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