Read here for additional details on my DTLA 2040 Community Plan update counter-proposal and argument for more housing downtown.
Read MoreTwo Recent Updates on Housing Progress in Los Angeles
Two recent posts on the Abundant Housing LA blog highlight where we stand on the city's efforts to alleviate the housing shortage.
Read MoreLos Angeles Builds 10 New Multifamily Homes For Every One It Tears Down
Between 2010 and 2015, Los Angeles built ten new multifamily homes for every one it tore down. But we can do better than that.
Read MoreInitial Thoughts on Proposed Downtown LA "Parking Podium" Reforms
The City Planning department has some ideas for how to improve parking policy and reduce the prevalence of parking podiums in downtown LA. Here are my thoughts.
Read More2016 Ballot Initiative Voter Guide Cheat-Sheet
A cheat-sheet voting guide for 17 California ballot initiatives, and several more in Los Angeles County, the City of LA, and Santa Monica.
Read MoreBallot Initiative Voter Guide: California, LA County, and the Cities of Los Angeles and Santa Monica
Analysis and recommendations for all 17 California ballot initiatives, along with some local ones in LA County, the City of Los Angeles, and Santa Monica.
Read MoreRent Stability, Part 2: How "Rolling" Rent Stabilization Might Preserve Affordability in LA
Right now rent stabilization applies to multifamily housing built before 1979. Instead, we should consider a "rolling" threshold that includes all buildings over 30 years old.
Read MoreRent Stability, Part 1: The Limits of Rent Stabilization In Los Angeles
Stabilized rents are not synonymous with affordable rents.
Read MoreLook Backward, Not Forward! Downzone Single-Family Neighborhoods!
We've made it illegal to build almost anything but single-family homes and car-oriented strip malls, but why stop there? Begone, suburbs; bring back the orchards.
Read MoreWe Paved Over Farmland to Build the Suburbs; Now Those Neighborhoods Are Off-Limits to Any More Development
"The reason for the history lesson is: We paved over the orchards to make way for the Baby Boomers, and now the Boomers are fighting with Millennials who want to turn one-story strip malls into four-story apartments."
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