By Gina Thornburg Developers got an awesome gift on Christmas Day 2013 when the Warner Center 2035 Specific Plan went into effect. Five years on, though, this developers’ bonanza is a …
Stop Urban Cleansing, Save the Affordable Historic Apartments at Crossroads
At a press conference on July 10, Coalition to Preserve LA stood with tenants of the Las Palmas Courtyard Apartments, Selma recording studio, members of the L.A. Tenants Union Hollywood …
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 …
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 …
Anti-Neighborhood Senate Bill 827 and SB 743 Shock Angelenos at Workshop
This past weekend’s Save Your Zip Code workshops on state Sen. Scott Wiener’s disastrous Senate Bill 827, which is poised to destroy neighborhoods across Los Angeles, and SB 743, its …
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 …
Save Los Angeles, Oppose Scott Weiner’s YIMBY Nightmare, SB 827
Join the people of San Francisco, the South Bay, Inland Empire, Bay Area, Orange County and San Diego in fighting Senate Bill 827 by YIMBY leader Scott Wiener. SB 827 is …