Sherman Oaks, that’s a nice little compound for the money. Looks like it might need some work, but it’s not too bad. Santa Monica looks good too, especially with those $200/month HOA fees
Nonsense, there are cities outside of Los Angeles city limits that are more affordable. Lazy millennials feel entitled to live in places like Silver Lake and Santa Monica on the cheap
Why is people believing that they are entitled to move here and live in West Hollywood and Santa Monica at discount rents, because they feel they are too good to live in the Valley or Mid City, a "crisis"? Why is it that their pretentiousness and desire to live above their means a "crisis" that we native Californians have to pay for?
Rents holding flat in LA, with two-bedrooms going for $1,760
We don’t need more low cost housing. We need less entitlement brats and pretentious prima donnas who want to live in Weho and Santa Monica at discount rents because they think they are too good for the valley or Mid City.
The problem is that people who work in expensive areas get pushed out further and further, but their jobs are still in Santa Monica. If you teach in SM High, but have to love in Pacoima . . . that’s a ton of traffic and CO2 emissions. Affordable housing is just good city planning.
If people don’t allow more housing to be built, you get draconian rent control laws like this. It is like leaky house; plug up on avenue of a political solution, and it’ll just come out another place. And you might like that solution far less than allowing four-plexes to be built in Westwood.
Santa Monica and W Hollywood show the result of extreme RR policy. 98% of the new supply is for the super high-end categories. $6K for the 2+2 price range and older 2 story RR buildings are falling apart because of extreme RR regulations. High regulation, taxes, and low supply will make these cities even more expensive.
Rents holding flat in LA, with two-bedrooms going for $1,760
LOL to anyone who thinks that this is the solution that will let them live in a nice unit in a desirable neighborhood. You think there aren’t/weren’t housing shortages in socialist countries? That’s not exclusive to the capitalist system. Under your imagined socialist regime, the socially and politically well-connected will still get the prime west side, canyon, and hillside units and you as a struggling renter will be assigned your paper mache box in eastern Siberia.
Solano Canyon to Downtown is definitely NOT an hour each way. Even in the heaviest of rush hours it’ll take 30 minutes tops. In light traffic it’s like a 10-15 minute drive.
Glendale to DTLA on a Saturday late afternoon or early evening when traffic is heinous is about 30 minutes.
I imagine in a weekday it’s about the same, if not quicker.
People reading CurbedLA work all over the LA basin. Some areas are more desirable than others based on where one works. Glendale isn’t a good fot for you, but will be ideal for others.
I work in Burbank. There’s no way I’d choose to live in Santa Monica, or Venice, or West LA, even though I realize homes in those areas are extremely desirable.