Jon Regardie

In the first quarter of 2025, Boyle Heights registered 635 #homeless encampment calls. In Q1 2024 it was 379 MyLA311 reports. But in Echo Park the 2025 count dropped--to 153, from 201. More neighborhood breakdown in my @TheEastsiderLA story. https://t.co/noA7zp47Fr

From Jan. 1-March 31, 2025, Eastside neighborhoods saw a 12.6% rise in #homeless encampment calls. But there's a lot of variance--MyLA311 reports fell in Echo Park and Silver Lake, and spiked in Boyle Heights and El Sereno. My @TheEastsiderLA story. https://t.co/noA7zp47Fr

In yanking funding from #LAHSA county supervisors bet that they have the best plan to reduce #homelessness. If they’re right, they get all the credit and a giant cake. If they're wrong, then LA is even deeper in the soup. My @WestsideCurrent piece. https://t.co/dlFknu0Qxq

In late 2022 @MayorOfLA proclaimed that the city and county had locked arms to combat #homelessness. But in voting to yank $300 million from #LAHSA, the county supervisors have hacked those arms off at the elbows. My @WestsideCurrent piece. https://t.co/dlFknu0Qxq

Over the decades #LAHSA has had loads of mis-steps and #homelessness has worsened significantly. But will the County Supes move to chop @LAHomeless make things better, or just lead to a silo approach to the crisis? My new @WestsideCurrent piece. https://t.co/dlFknu0Qxq

It’s #Stateofthecity and LA budget day, for those who celebrate. I take an advance glance at potential responses to the fiscal meltdown for @WestsideCurrent. https://t.co/n9G8jdZwuO

A proposed settlement involving ex-#CD14 Councilman Kevin de Leon is on City Ethics Commission agenda this week--involves work he did before taking office and later votes. From doc: "staff recommends resolving this case by imposing a penalty of $18,750." https://t.co/GY7ynmPF9A

RT @WestsideCurrent: ⁦@JonRegardie⁩ talks budget pain in his latest Westside Current column on ⁦@KTLA⁩... https://t.co/vF8Jt5lE6c

On Monday @MayorOfLA will release her budget, which aims to plug a nearly $1 billion deficit. Will there be layoffs? Service cuts? Fee hikes? For the @WestsideCurrent I look ahead, including quoting Clubber Lang. https://t.co/n9G8je04km

If you only read 1 piece with 13 mini-chapters about LA's massive budget crisis, then please make it this one that I did for the @WestsideCurrent. https://t.co/n9G8je04km

The city of LA's budget situation is awful, but not unprecedented. The turmoil of the Great Recession—with threats of thousands of city worker layoffs and furloughs—could hint at what's to come. More in my @WestsideCurrent piece. https://t.co/n9G8je04km

What will LA experience as its faces a projected $1 billion budget shortfall? To quote Clubber Lang from Rocky III, "Painnnn." Get ready for big cuts and fee hikes. My new @WestsideCurrent piece. https://t.co/n9G8je04km

Go Los Angeles #earthquake Twitter alert, go!

Illegal dumping is up this year in Westside neighborhoods including Venice, Palms and Westchester. Details in my @WestsideCurrent story. https://t.co/3mzXjNViue

In the wake of the #wildfires, parking tickets were pretty much halted in Pacific Palisades, with just 5 citations in nearly 2 months. But other parts of the city of LA were not as lucky. Data and details in my @CrosstownLA story. https://t.co/CuNB30bKXD

RT @WestsideCurrent: ⁦@JonRegardie⁩ broke the story on the Westside Current—L.A. officials are taking steps to rein in the caustic, hate-fi…

Today Council President @mhdcd8 will begin to seek to rein in caustic language heard in public meetings. A motion, he says, "will really focus on language that is designed to attack someone’s personhood and their protected status." @WestsideCurrent https://t.co/Aqxxxw0psT