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 …
Berkeley Finds CEQA Doesn’t Hurt Housing, City Councils Do
“Getting It Right,” a stunning report by Berkeley Law and Columbia University researchers, drives a stake in claims by Gov. Brown and legislators that the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, …
AHF Opens 220-Room Homeless Housing on Skid Row
AIDS Healthcare Foundation has opened a renovated hotel for 220 homeless — and the non-profit foundation did it four times faster, and at less than half the cost, of what …
Christmas Card for the Metropolitan Tenants: Happy Holidays! Now Get Out!
Get out: That’s what City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell and United Way board member Jerry Neuman are permitting as they look the other way while residents are ordered from their homes …