LA Wildfire Rebuilding Trails Other California Disaster Recoveries
The record recovery that isn't. Rebuilding after last year's wildfires in Los Angeles lags behind other recent natural disasters in California https://t.co/N6OxdteMDr https://t.co/10oE7ljWcb
Bonus Law Boosts California Housing Production More Than ADUs
Interesting new paper out today that contends California's most effective housing production laws in the past decade — aside from ADUs — are changes to a prior policy that allowed developers to build more units in exchange for some income restrictions.
LA Wildfire Survivors Cite Insurance Woes in Rebuilding
The most constant complaint I've heard from LA wildfire survivors struggling to rebuild has been about problems with their insurance
Homeowner Advocates Treat Neighborhood as Personal Zoning Stake
I was struck by this homeowner advocate's stance that buying a house in a single-family-home neighborhood means you should have a kind of "vesting" in that neighborhood remaining single-family — the same as a developer with zoning for their projects https://t.co/Lb979044mJ...
State Law Compels LA Council to Rethink Apartment Ban
Last year, the Los Angeles City Council voted to keep apartments out of single-family-home neighborhoods. A new state law is forcing councilmembers to change their minds. For @POLITICOPro subscribers: https://t.co/Lb979044mJ
California's Lebowski Loophole Lets Heirs Keep Low Taxes
How do the children of homeowners in California get to inherit their parents' low property tax rates? We did the definitive story on what became known as "the Lebowski Loophole" in 2018 https://t.co/gzdAP9B4HC
LA Council Forms Committee to Revise Mansion Tax Amid Threat
For all the LA "mansion tax" watchers out there, the LA city council created a three-member committee today to recommend changes to the initiative for a possible new local vote on the Nov ballot. Comes as a potential Nov statewide...
Trump's LA Wildfire Rebuild Plan Collapses Before Launch
NEW: The Trump plan to take over LA's wildfire rebuild is over before it started. https://t.co/JBoXSiUqhh
Housing: Unexpected Alliance Between Trump and Mamdani
From the weekend: Why it makes sense that housing is where Trump and Mamdani can find common cause and how Mamdani and LA's Nithya Raman and seeking to upend a half century of urban housing politics and a decade-long fight...
Renter‑Focused Progressive Coalition Redefines Urban Housing Politics
Two rising leaders in New York and Los Angeles are pushing for a fundamental revolution in urban housing politics: A unified progressive movement centered on renters instead of homeowners https://t.co/xC3VrNCfNM
Mamdani Admin Uses Bankruptcy to Shift Rent-Stabilized Buildings Publicly
This NYT piece doesn't get the framing around housing politics right, but does lay out explicitly that the Mamdani administration's strategy is to let rent-stabilized buildings go into bankruptcy and use that as leverage for public or nonprofit ownership https://t.co/MVpSmuHQ9W
Altadena Renters Lag Behind Post‑wildfire Recovery, People Matter
Renter recovery is lagging in Altadena after last year's wildfire, a new @UCLAlatino study finds: “The real question is when we’re prioritizing return to Altadena to what it once was, is that based on the housing or is that based...
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Kinda says everything about what the state’s new approach on housing does and doesn’t do that Huntington Beach has been in litigation over it for the entirety of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s tenure
Mansion Tax Repeal Initiative Secures Ballot Spot
Looks like the statewide initiative that would chop Los Angeles' ULA "mansion tax" is going to qualify for the November ballot per @JeremyBWhite in Playbook PM. Backers are turning in 1.2m signatures and need just 874k valid ones https://t.co/WVH0LOnGQi
Permits Drive 50% Premium, Blocking LA Housing Supply
Developers are willing to pay 50% more for land that already has permits to build in the city of Los Angeles: "Overall, our results suggest permitting is a major barrier to housing supply in Los Angeles"