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People love to complain. NOT ENOUGH RIDERSHIP was the issue not too long ago. Now it’s PACKED LIKE SARDINES. For a mere $1.75 to get from DTLA to Santa Monica is CHEAP. Get over yourselves. STOP WHINING.

People here are talking demolishing the Atwater home and rebuilding, in what is not considered prime property in LA (at least not by Santa Monica, weho, or Larchmont standards). That costs way, way more than paying Hoas, and requires approval and permitting from LA. In the long run it may not even result in a return on investment that is worth it.

I’ve proposed that the city develop the city’s Streetlight property just east of the Vermont/Santa Monica metro station. I emailed Councilman O’Farrell’s office with no response:

I’ve been thinking lately about potential housing sites in the district and keep wondering about the LA Streetlights property on Santa Monica Blvd and Virgil Ave. I see absolutely no reason why we need to store streetlights on a prime property within a block of Metro. Has there been any investigation into relocating the streetlight depot to an industrial area and developing this property as affordable housing?

My initial study shows that if these parcels were developed as an R3-1 zoning with the TOC Tier 4 bonus, it could house hundreds of low income households. Site area of 166,140 sq ft / 1 unit per 800 sq ft = 208 units + 146 units (80% TOC bonus) = 375 units!!!

House people, not streetlamps!

Especially the Peninsula. Santa Clara County has hundreds of thousands of tech jobs and is still entirely single-family houses. So anybody working at Google/Apple winds up living in SF and taking the bus down. SF is tiny and can only grow so much.

Bulldoze Atherton. Build giant, Brutalist 30-story housing blocks.

And other mammals live where they can survive and forage for food, no? If they can’t, they migrate elsewhere, correct?

Letting the market determine pricing is not "criminalizing existence." I’m sorry that you’re so ignorant that you believe that living in places like Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and dtla is a "human right."

That said, nothing is stopping you from taking money from your own paycheck and giving it to low income residents so that they can live in LA. You’re free subsidize low income housing yourself. Are you doing this? Or are you just demanding that others do it for you?

Richard Bloom is an idiot. If someone can’t afford to life in Santa Monica then they MOVE! Live somewhere cheaper! Living in Los Angeles is not a right. Let supply and demand determine rent rates.

Because of the Costa-Hawkins Act I don’t believe cities can impose rent control any stricter than what was in place in 1995, or thereabouts. AB 1482 would not rescind earlier, stricter rent control laws that already existed in cities like LA, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and West Hollywood. AB 1482 is admitting that the entire state is moving upmarket with its new construction and that new construction in hot areas always raises rents, even in the older buildings, as we saw in the cities I mentioned above and San Francisco.

Rent control has made housing more expensive and Santa Monica and San Francisco are perfect examples.

Exactly. Not understanding the the "reasoning" of "progressives". Why not just barbwire all of LA and invite every couch surfer, flake, welfare fraud, petty thief, lazy, out of work wannabe actor, etc, to live in LA for free? The middle class and and wealthy can finance this and move to pacoima or van nuys and commute, so that the poor can live in dtla, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, and Venice.

In practice, service workers haven’t been able to afford rent, so they move 2 hours east into the desert and drive their cars to Santa Monica every day just to sling espressos and serve sushi. Back in the old days, every city would have its own shitty part of town and nice part of town. Because of the automobile, we can condense shitty parts of towns into whole regions, and make nice parts of towns into an entire city.

But that’s a crazy system! Especially considering global warming, smog and health effects, and lost productivity to traffic. Obviously, there are a lot of ways to solve that problem; better public transport from areas of cheap rent to expensive areas, incentivizing more new construction everywhere in the City, and minimum wage requirements.

In a way you’re right, but I don’t know how to fix it without a huge increase in minimum wage. If the price of goods and service internalized all the externalities of our current system (which you could fairly say is a form of corporate welfare), that cup of coffee would cost $15.