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 - Are your lying eyes still deceiving you? Do you see vacancy signs on unrented apartments and houses in your neighborhood, yet you are repeatedly told that Los Angeles has so much homelessness and overcrowding because of a housing shortage? No, your eyes are not deceiving you; those vacancy signs are for real, and the claims of a general housing shortage are fabricated.
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3 weeks ago |
citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin
PLANNING WATCH - I only have one quarrel with the critiques of Trump II. They gloss over the two major sins of Democratic officials. In particular Democratic Party officials, like former President Biden, are not only complicit in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, but also the housing crisis, especially homelessness and overcrowding across the entire country, especially in California.
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4 weeks ago |
citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin
PLANNING WATCH - How could anyone resist a planning proposal that promised affordable housing, car free and bikeable communities, lush trees, high quality transit, and stunning architecture? The Livable Communities Initiative (LCI) is filled with delightful promotional writing, but for those with a planning background, this puffery is pure deception. The purpose of Livable Communities is to camouflage pricey mini-apartments as a perfect solution to LA’s --- like the country’s-- homeless crisis.
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1 month ago |
citywatchla.com | Dick Platkin
PLANNING WATCH - Homelessness is bad in LA, but it will get even worse for multiple reasons: 1) Economic inequality is growing in the United States, pricing more people out of housing, especially in the racially-integrated Alta Dena area. According to the Pew Research Center, recent income gains were concentrated at the top. In contrast, middle income families and the poor have experienced the greatest economic decline.
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1 month ago |
laprogressive.com | Dick Platkin |Rob Maurer
Mayor Karen Bass’s critics, most of whom are good ol’ boys and girls tempted by quick real estate profits, are using this year’s wildfires as their cover for criticizing the Mayor. There is nothing new about LA’s wildfires, except that climate change is making them worse. Anyone who wants can watch an excellent documentary produced by the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) in 1962, Design for Disaster.
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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