critical urbanism It's amazing in its blatant psychopathy. We have 'urbanists' here actually pushing for property tax increases specifically to force elderly/retired people out of their homes so they-- the urbanists-- can have them.

Exclusive: A Westside Current review found City Attorney candidate Marissa Roy misrepresented her legal career. She billed herself as a deputy city attorney, but records show she was an unpaid intern. westsidecurrent.com/elections/excl…

“Would Roy stand in front of the State Bar or a judge & represent that she was employed by the City of LA as a ‘Deputy City Attorney’ who ‘brought landmark lawsuits,’ when in reality she was at the time nothing more than an unpaid intern months out of law school?” said Sam Yebri.

Exclusive: Records Show Progressive LA City Attorney Candidate Misrepresented Legal Career westsidecurrent.com/elections/excl… via @CurrentVenice

Wiener’s bill violates the most basic principles of social organization and American federalism. It substitutes far-away authority for local expertise. Capitol housing reform wrongly targets the sacred power to shape California locally calmatters.org/commentary/202…

SB79 treats neighborhoods not as places where people live and work but as dots on a map. It’s an expression of ego rather than planning. Capitol housing reform wrongly targets the sacred power to shape California locally calmatters.org/commentary/202…

Oh, good. Another California “homelessness task force.” That’ll do the trick. – the all aspect report allaspectreport.com/2025/09/06/oh-…

Study finds Los Angeles is ‘second safest’ large city in the United States ktla.com/news/nationwor…

The last Vancouver council approved all 245 zone change requests for high density construction throughout the city. Almost all had some opposition from neighborhood residents at the hearings. All were approved. Allmost all are now occupied or under construction. Did prices drop?

Forget YIMBY. The housing shortage could disappear on its own. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Steve keen is one of the world’s top ten most influential economists. And he says the housing crisis is not about restricted supply. It’s about global asset price inflation. The rise of the rentier.

Another reason to vote no on #SB79. It is not about supply and demand, it is about speculation. Robert Rivas Mike McGuire Gavin Newsom Senator Monique Limón Lola Smallwood-Cuevas Rick Chavez Zbur Henry Stern

A thought occurs to me. There is no off-shore oil drilling in the Pacific Palisades despite efforts back in the 1970's and 1980's to place it there. Now, you might think that's because "evil" rich NIMBYs successfully lobbied against it. But you would be mistaken. Because 1. The

Shady #YIMBY Senator Scott Wiener #SB79

These are very tense and serious times. We shouldn’t have a shitposter with no experience live tweeting assassination investigations from atop the FBI.