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Sometimes, I find the comments sections more interesting than the actual articles. I’ve lived in Los Angeles County, in a tiny, almost invisible unincorporated neighborhood called Del Aire, since my parents brought us here from an impoverished life in Ft Worth Texas in 1956. I love this county, warts and all. In response to some of these interesting comments—the boast of clear skies, for one—neither the article nor the comments mentioned the old Los Angeles weather adage "May gray and June Gloom", a Southern California climate idiosycrasy I grew up with for over 60 years. That isn’t anything new—and it’s certainly not the the product of imaginary chemtrails, or other conspiracy theories. I also live next to LAX and the 105/405 interchange, (both of which I watched get built), and there’s a whole lot more polltion fallout, even three miles from the ocean, than just a gray film on my patio furniture.

Then there’s public transportation, or lack thereof. Sorry to burst the bubbles, but public transportation in GREATER LOS ANGELES COUNTY is still a joke. All light rails, existing and planned, truly do lead to and from downtown Los Angeles, so if you live and work downtown, and take the train, no problem—except standing room only, for the 18 mile trip duration. I know because there’s a Green Line/Metro station terminal 4 blocks from my home that is totally useless to those of us who live and work in the South Bay, or Santa Monica, Westwood, or San Pedro, or want to go to San Fernando Valley without backtracking to Union Station, first. Public transportation for us means relying on slow, stinky, overcrowded buses that stop at every corner. Before retirement, I traveled 9 miles from my home, to Mar Vista, a half hour car commute. Taking the bus required walking 1/4 mile, at 4:30 a.m. in the dark, using my cane or walker, to the Green Line Station terminal, where a Culver City Green bus would pick me up, travel to and along Sepulveda Blvd, stopping at just about every corner along the way, to Palms Ave, where I would get off the bus—with my walker—cross Sepulveda Blvd, and the 405 Palms Ave freeway overpass to Sawtelle Blvd, and hobble on to my office, nearly half a mile away, in order to be at work by about 7 a.m. If I was lucky.

This is my home, and I love it here, but pardon me for suggesting you potential new residents stay someplace other than California. We’re overcrowded, as it is.

The number one thing to know about this list is that the numbers are off. And, worryingly, it was not written by some new-to-data intern, but editors. This, Curbed readers, is your LA Editor Jenna Chandler and your Urbanism Editor Alissa Walker.

Jenna and Alissa, here is some help statistically depicting your community: https://census.gov/data/academy/data-gems.html?eml=gd&utm_campaign=20180522mscacs1ccwbnrs&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery. That’s a new set of tutorials from the U.S. Census. Also see L.A. County data (cities and unincorporated areas), Bureau of Labor Statistics (unemployment numbers), and Bureau of Economic Analysis. All have public datasets, and tutorials so you can get the numbers right. You’re welcome.

The reasons LA housing is so difficult are many. But so long as we have Prop U (Zev Yaroslavsky), rent control (including new construction, thanks Councilman Garcetti), sidewalk-camping (Villaraigosa, Perry, Ripston), $20K/door-floor relocation bounties, HPOZ, local administration of Ellis actions, minimum 1-year extensions on vacation for redevelopment, the undue influence of the "affordable housing" industrial-complex, and the municipal welcome-mat for third-world poors, we’re going to have a perpetual "shortage".

Yet folks like Ms. Walker will continue to back the exact same folks that created the mess and ponder what they will do to "fix" it.

Next up, the Alissa Walker article suggesting that the entire marathon route should be permanently closed to cars. " class="emoji">

Ms. Walker, you write the most pointless articles on the internet.

Lay off the Medical Marijuana Ms. Walker

i’m sick and tired of these sjw clowns stirring the pot non-stop. it’s only a matter of time until there’s another rodney king type incident that sparks a 1992 style riot.

i think another civil war / balkanisation of the united states is inevitable. very heavily armed patriots vs. these delusional collectivist degenerates.

mark my words, this is going to come to a head and end up VERY bad for these types.

"intelligent people like Alissa Walker" Taking the position that LA should dismantle its freeways actually suggests a lack of intelligence or any understanding as to transportation in the Los Angeles Metropolis.

Walker, you are a friggin’ GENIUS! Let’s do that, and then we’ll……… Oh, sorry. that was already tried by Moonbeam and his minion Adriana Gianturco in the 70’s. How’d that work out. And by the way, how’d you like to do a 40 mile commute on the Embarcandero? Move away.

More Red Fascist stupidity from Walker and cadre.