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Why We Oppose CARE Court—and You Should Too!
All Californians deserve permanent, affordable housing, and healthcare that meet their needs and allow our communities to flourish.
LA Working to Prevent Homelessness Among Older Youth
As of March, there were 3,214 18- to 24-year-olds seeking housing help through the county’s homeless authority.
Los Angeles City of Suffering People
Repeated letdowns that tip people over the edge–whether that edge be drugs, alcohol, or even suicide. We see some of these people talking to themselves.
Why Pursue Planning Policies That Make Homelessness Crisis Worse?
Deregulation of zoning laws and the privatization of affordable housing are significant causes of homelessness?
Industry Destroys Rent Control, But Help Is Near
Tenants who fought and won disputes over illegal construction can guide newer tenants through the procedure. They are proof that displacement is not inevitable.
Will San Francisco Put Rent on the Bargaining Table
The city’s ‘Right to Organize’ ordinance requires landlords to recognize tenant associations in their buildings.
How to Make Housing as a Human Right a Reality
Sonali Kolhatkar: The federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple solution: offer people a public option for housing.
Homelessness Czar Needed for L.A.
A homelessness czar would be a non-politician, not beholden to appeasing his or her constituents, who for decades have spoken loudly to restrict housing development, usually for the purpose of keeping “other” people out of their neighborhoods.
Combat Homelessness by Expanding State-Funded Housing Opportunities
Homekey provides local public entities with large, capital grants that can be used to purchase existing buildings and convert them into housing for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Citizen's Assembly: Californians Coming Together
Joe Mathews: The assembly could provide a model of how Californians of every stripe can hash out their differences, and find better ways forward.
Deciding to Become a Full-Time Housing Organizer
Randy Shaw: Infante was not always a fan of new housing. “I was that person who saw a new development and thought ‘here come’s gentrification.’
With Today's Housing Crisis, Are We Approaching the Taxes or Pitchforks Moment?
Danny Haiphong: Biological and chemical weapons are a vile expression of how far U.S. imperialism will go to maintain its economic and political supremacy.
California Assembly Backs Speculators Over Tenants
Randy Shaw: I saw through this campaign that Lee is among the state’s hardest working and politically committed legislators. He is a true gem.
L.A. City Council Fiddles as Housing Crisis Burns
Dick Platkin: Public opinion polls consistently report that Angelenos consider the homeless crisis to be the city’s most pressing problem.
Ending Speculator Evictions Bill Faces Key Vote Today
Randy Shaw: Why does California put speculator profits ahead of the state’s need for affordable homes? The power of Big Real Estate.
Did LA’s City Hall Get COP26 Climate Memos?
Dick Platkin: The COP26 climate change handwriting is on-the-wall, but it has failed to move public officials from inconsequential adaptation to mitigation.
As Housing Crisis Worsens, Wall Street Still in Your Backyard, Via the Police
Dick Platkin: LA Council members have proposed nearly 300 sites for a camping ban. But insufficient housing is still an issue.
Smash and Grab or Stack and Pack: Who Are the Bigger Crooks?
Dick Platkin: To add insult to energy, these white collar grifters adorn themselves in the purest of motives. They claim they are building low-income housing, addressing the climate crisis, increasing transit ridership, fostering inter-generational wealth, and reversing racist housing practices.
What “Pro-Housing” Actually Means
Randy Shaw: It’s not “pro-housing” to support apartment bans through much of a city. Sharply restricting where tenants can live is not “progressive.”
Democrats Sure Look Like Republicans on Housing
Dick Platkin: At one time, the Democratic Party stood for policies that successfully addressed the country’s chronic housing crisis. What changed, and why?
12 Step Program to Create a Housing Crisis
Dick Platkin: This housing crisis did not happen by itself. It is the result of deliberate policy decisions at every level of government over the past half century.
Making Sense of the Eviction Crisis
Liz Theoharis: This eviction crisis is happening at a moment when there’s already an existing population of 8 to 11 million homeless Americans who have only been thrown into a deeper set of crises during this seemingly never-ending pandemic.
Fauxgressives Win Recent Neighborhood Council Elections
Dick Platkin: When you put these Neighborhood Council fauxgressives under the microscope, you find liberal slogans encasing a political agenda that could have been, and probably was, written by real estate developers and their admirers.