Should single-family zones exclude affordable housing OR should affordable housing be built equitably throughout LA? 🤔 🚨 On Thurs 7/25, City Planning is holding a public hearing on the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP) which covers these topics planning-lacity-org.zoom.us/j/81102298373

Los Angeles officials are facing a fast-approaching deadline to rezone the city for more housing. Today, the city council rejected a plan that would have allowed new apartments in some areas zoned for single-family homes. Read my LAist piece for details: laist.com/news/housing-h…

LA is facing a housing crisis, with skyrocketing rents, tens of thousands of evictions annually, and the largest unsheltered homeless population in the country, all in the context of a segregated city with deeply inequitable access to resources. (🧵)

PSA: LA's Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP) has now gone into effect

Urban Forestry Division could say "Wow you're building homes? Do whatever is fastest! Go go go!!" Instead it goes like this: Me: Hey UFD, can I get this cleared? UFD: Hrmm... Give us 1 street tree Me: But we don't have room for 1 tree, we put them on our property next to the

LA’s Measure ULA passed with good intentions: tax high-value property sales to help low-income renters. But the early evidence is sobering: transactions have collapsed, revenues have fallen far short, and housing projects are harder to build.

oh my fucking god

This is what's wrong with the City of Los Angeles' building permit "clearance process" in a picture. Random depts, like LADWP, get to demand crazy things like this transformer pad in the most prominent spot on the sidewalk. You say "yes" or delay construction by a year.

Newsom is pushing back against the Trump admin fining UCLA $1 billion, saying the suit is part of a larger pattern. "Any institution that cultivates individual or independent thinking is under assault," he tells our Christopher Cadelago. More from Newsom's POLITICO Live interview 👇

In part 2 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy, the UCLA Housing Voice Podcast speaks with Market Urbanism about the high cost of elevators in North America, and the negative consequences for affordability and accessibility. lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/98-…

Unfortunately it's too late. Sure there will be some units built, but not many and not enough. -ULA has ruined the economics of developing rental housing in LA. -The average person can't conceive how badly broken and incompetent DWP is. Our example: We're sitting on a

No way James Franklin getting outcoached by Joffrey Lannister.

PURE HEART! The Bruins take down No. 7 Penn State, 42-37, at the Rose Bowl! #GoBruins

This guy has been in charge of the offense for like 2 days and he hung 42 points on the highest-paid DC in the country. Impressive.

WE DID IT!!!

NO ONE-HIT WONDER HERE!   UCLA beats Michigan State, 38-13, for its second straight win!   #GoBruins

can someone cancel my 8AM

Quite the detour

Wait so Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan now? "One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call