Dick Platkin
Columnist at CityWatchLA
Writes weekly Planning Watch column for CityWatchLA on-line magazine.
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1 week ago |
citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin
PLANNING WATCH - The City of Los Angeles adopted its Rent Stabilization Ordinance in 1978. This means that each year fewer apartments in Los Angeles are subject to this 47 year-old law. The Los Angeles City Council can update this ordinance, and the time has come for them to finally act. During the past half century local housing conditions have dramatically changed, and the city’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance must follow suit.
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1 week ago |
laprogressive.com | Dick Platkin |Rob Maurer
Real estate and landlord lobbies will oppose these amendments to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance so we must push the Mayor and their City Councilmembers hard. Real estate and landlord lobbies will oppose these amendments to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance so we must push the Mayor and their City Councilmembers hard. The City of Los Angeles adopted its Rent Stabilization Ordinance in 1978. This means that each year fewer apartments in Los Angeles are subject to this 47 year-old law.
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3 weeks ago |
citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin
PLANNING WATCH - As most Angelenos already know, despite local homeless programs costing billions, homelessness and overcrowding are increasing. This is why. LAHSA’s (Local Homeless Services Authority) incompetence is not the primary cause of local homelessness. This agency does, however, make a bad situation worse, and mainstream media’s shoddy reporting causes people to believe that LAHSA is the main cause of local homelessness. This leads us to the first myth.
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1 month ago |
citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin
PLANNING WATCH - California State Senator Scott Wiener’s latest giveaway to the real estate and construction industries is California Senate Bill 607. At CityWatchLA and elsewhere there have been excellent critiques which completely debunk this legislation. Instead my focus is the flawed logic underlying Senate Bill 607. It is yet another YIMBY “housing” bill to feather the nest of real estate investors, despite claims that its purpose is to reduce homelessness and increase transit ridership.
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1 month ago |
citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin
PLANNING WATCH - I began these Planning Watch columns with a series on the mansionization of Los Angeles neighborhoods not protected by the city’s 36 Historical Preservation Overlay Ordinances. In theory, about 95% of LA’s houses can be mansionized, although in practice mansionizers concentrate on affluent, mostly white neighborhoods. In this series, I focused on Beverly Grove, a neighborhood north of Wilshire and west of Fairfax.
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Two-thirds of Angelinos expect another 1992-uprising. This is why. https://t.co/N9hZe6avoN
The Los Angeles City Council is unable to act on homelessness, other than making the rich richer through up-zoning and then dispatching the police to the resulting homeless encampments. https://t.co/8d40whKJQl
2021 was a good year for the gentrifiers in the Los Angeles region. For everyone else, not so good. https://t.co/yXoIaI3zbW