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 …
Roosevelt High School Must be Saved! Attend Hearing, Write Letters
If you care about protecting the cultural history of Boyle Heights, LAUSD is hosting a public meeting on the fate of Roosevelt High School at 6 p.m. on Feb. 21 …
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 …
Lovely Homeless Lady Sharon La Gue Asks City, “Stop Victimizing Us”
Instead of focusing the powers of Los Angeles on creating fast and safe homeless housing, the city is ticketing, jailing, rousting and victimizing these residents over petty wrongdoing, subjecting L.A.’s …
Los Angeles City Council Leaders Oppose Scott Wiener’s SB 827, the ‘Luxury Blight’ Bill
L.A. City Councilman David Ryu and City Council President Herb Wesson will ask the City of L.A. to formally oppose SB 827, the bizarre state senate bill that would jam …
Berggruen Institute Makes Top 10 List for Trashing L.A. Open Space
Five hundred people flooded the “Protect Our Wildlands” hearing to challenge Parisian billionaire Nicolas Berggruen’s plan to build a vast structure atop two Santa Monica Mountains ridge tops, killing open …
Save Your Zip Code: Is Your Home or Shop Threatened? Try our Cool Mapping Tool!
A full house of people at Coalition to Preserve LA’s weekend “Save Your Zip Code” Workshop were the first Angelenos to see our exclusive Mapping Tool created for us by …
Top 10 Reasons L.A. Homelessness Will Soar Again in 2018
1) Cost to build a SINGLE UNIT of “supportive housing” for L.A.’s homeless: $421,433 (footnote 1) 2) Cost to BUY a 1-bedroom CONDO in Westlake, or a 4-bedroom HOME in …
Our LA: Top 10 Best (Open Space!) and Worst (Road Diets!) of 2017
As 2017 ends, we at the Coalition to Preserve LA thank you for fighting the good fight. From the little guys trying to save the freshwater marshes at Ballona Wetlands, …