New : We discuss whether Gov. 's CARE Court mental health plan help fix homelessness and how L.A. and other counties are preparing to implement the program later this year
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A federal appeals court Monday upheld New York state’s decades-old regime regulating rents on some 1 million apartments wsj.com/articles/new-y via
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Warehouses transformed the Inland Empire economy. Now, some wonder whether all those jobs were worth the environmental price tag, latimes.com/california/sto
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Pretty remarkable that Los Angeles will have had a nearly four-year freeze on rent increases in the majority of apartments in the city.
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If you live in a rent-stabilized unit in LA city, your rent cannot be increased until February 1st, 2024.
Rent stabilization applies to any multifamily building in LA built before 1979. That’s about 60% of units in the city.
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On part of the exclusive sit down and I had with ..in a year he’s billed as focused on accountability, Newsom says he will push more CEQA tweaks and that local gov’s are happy his admin is giving them cover to build
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Just two (2) Bay Area cities — Alameda and San Francisco — in compliance with state housing planning law after the Jan. 31 deadline, per website. hcd.ca.gov/planning-and-c
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87 percent (!!) of California adults concerned that the state's housing costs will prevent younger generations from buying a home here, per new poll ppic.org/publication/pp
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New #PPICsurvey: When asked how concerned they are that the cost of housing will prevent their family’s younger generation from buying a home in their part of CA, 60% say they are very concerned.
📝 Full report here: bit.ly/3HQhHyo
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Putting aside homelessness, arguably no bigger manifestation of California's housing problems than how its university students are treated. Just horrible stories everywhere you look.
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Awful story about UC Davis students camping out overnight in freezing weather to get in line to for a student housing lease for NEXT YEAR. And many of them didn't get it
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Sounds like Steph is asking the city to play ...
Zone Defense
(I'm sorry. I just thought of this......)
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With Bay Area cities' state housing plans due, seeing a lot of chatter about the "builder's remedy" — an untested but potentially powerful provision in state law that may allow projects in cities without compliant housing plans to get approved. Background:
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Indicted crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250-million bail deal was the largest ever, secured with his parents’ house. But they aren’t typical homeowners, explains.
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TIL: Steph Curry has apparently "been following along with the housing element update" in the affluent Bay Area suburb of Atherton, and opposes rezoning to allow a single-family mansion to become 16 townhomes due to concerns of "both privacy and safety" 
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Background on the builder's remedy and what it does and doesn't do in my earlier story in Santa Monica where plans have been submitted for more than 4,500 units as of this fall
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Very interesting that national homebuilder Lennar is pitching what looks like a builders' remedy housing development with 530 homes including 110 low-income on a golf course in La Habra in Orange County.
In theory, little La Habra can do to say no.
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One update. We recorded this week before the filing of a lawsuit challenging CARE Court — which can compel treatment for severe mental illness — on civil rights grounds. But we did discuss what some of these concerns with the program are
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Just finished this book. A great read on chronic homelessness and a team of people in Boston working to help.
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In 30 minutes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder joins the L.A. Times Book Club for a live discussion about "Rough Sleepers," his new book.
Watch the livestream: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1
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Bloomberg columnist follows our interview with on whether building housing in gentrifying neighborhoods causes further gentrification and displacement and includes links to a bunch of studies on the issue.
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A new survey argues the pit count "is subject to a gantlet of error — human, technological and statistical — as thousands of volunteers record their observations on cellphones while walking and driving streets across the county," writes.
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. has agreed to pay $120,000 to settle with another tenant in a lawsuit over the elevator at the Madison in Skid Row, per new court papers. The foundation has so far agreed to pay $832,000 to settle with 13 tenants in the case. Four remain.
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Following the story’s publication, AHF has not contacted us — and nor has anyone else — requesting any correction or clarification or suggesting there were errors in the piece, which again you can read in the link here.
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Nevertheless, we spent significant time in our piece quoting from AHF’s court papers detailing their arguments in the elevator case — including their claims blaming the city and the Madison’s prior owner for the problems — to ensure that their perspective was represented.
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Roughly two days prior to publication, we sent AHF another email detailing a list of claims that our story might address and offering them another opportunity to comment, provide context or dispute any facts. Again, AHF declined to do so.
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Shortly after we asked for an interview, AHF filed court papers asking an LA Superior Court judge to order that attorneys in the elevator case must refrain from prejudicial pre-trial publicity — something already prohibited by attorney ethics rules. A judge denied their request.
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The ad does not note that AHF declined to comment for our story. We first contacted AHF requesting an interview on Jan. 4 — more than two weeks before the story published. They declined our request, saying it was unethical to comment because the trial might begin soon.
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Today, bought a full-page ad in following our story on elevator problems in one of their Skid Row residential hotels. They say we “sully AHF’s honor without confronting our response.” A response in this thread: latimes.com/homeless-housi
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"Get the bad news out of the way first" as a marketing principle
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A powerful nonprofit owns apartments for poor tenants. Why are some tenants trapped in their rooms?
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Fantastic story from about Monterey Park’s birth as America’s first suburban Chinatown and transformation through the years
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“We try so hard not to be the ugly American, and here is Emily with her terrible accent and garish clothing, shouting at French people in English and expecting them to understand."
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Besides concerns over a malfunctioning elevator in its Skid Row building, AIDS Healthcare Foundation's legal tactics have come under fire. Records show they've offered settlements for thousands below what was available when tenants' attorneys were present. latimes.com/homeless-housi
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The judge considered this skeptically, at one point asking the foundation attorney if he was asking her to order that there be no more articles. She took no action on the request. Anyway, you can read today's story here:
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The foundation attorney wanted the judge to admonish the attorneys in the case, saying he was concerned that pre-trial publicity would make it hard to get an impartial jury. What if there are two articles or three, he said?
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I was just in court for a hearing in a lawsuit against the AIDS Healthcare Foundation over elevator problems at a building they own in Skid Row when a foundation attorney brought up what he called a “serious issue" — today's story on the case
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One of the nation's biggest funders of pro-tenant causes owns a single-room-occupancy hotel in Skid Row with chronic elevator malfunctions for more than five years. Tenants have fallen down the shaft, slept in the lobby and stayed in their rooms for days
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