"Only my side points out how recent buyers will be wiped out from plummeting home values, as soon as the first tower goes up."
Because only your side insists on being tremendously, galactically wrong and stupid. They’ve been building a number of new towers in Hollywood over the past 5-8 years, to the chagrin of local NIMBYs. Let’s check out how badly that tanked home values over that same period of time under your theory: https://www.zillow.com/hollywood-los-angeles-ca/home-values/
Neighborhood names change. I have an old phone book that calls West Los Angeles, the area around USC. A more recent example is the Wilshire District is now called Koreatown.
Also, Mid-City is close to booming Culver City and the area is gentrifying rapidly. It is also easy to get Downtown, the Miracle Mile, Hollywood, LAX using La Cienaga, and even Santa Monica using the Expo Line.
Very Sad, but I think this is good news, since in the last 2 years, everyones saying these Scooters are "dangerous" yet more people are killed WALKING or BIKING or DRIVING than on Scooters. Just one in two years, and a million rides! This is sad, but Hollywood is full of drunk drivers, killing peds all the time.
love those photos. Brings back a lot of memories. L.A. was a different place in the 70’s. As a kid it meant, Smog alerts. lol. But also, Flippers and seeing Hollywood blvd. at christmas time with those huge chandelier Christmas decorations hanging above the street. lol. The movie FOXES has a scene with them in it.
A shelter in all 15 of LA’s council districts? Maybe not
There is no one size fits all solution to the homeless crisis. The drug addicts and the mentally ill aren’t going to be helped by a shelter. What they need is hospitalization. There are a lot of very sick, damaged people on the streets who need more than just a bed and some hot food.. And the homeless who aren’t addicts or mentally ill (and they do exist) do not want to be around these people either. And many of those people just want to be left alone.Having lived in this city for many years and having been everything from homeless to doing well enough to be living in the Hollywood Hills it is my opinion that providing somebody is in compliance with all the laws (meaning they’re not hoarding a bunch of junk on a sidewalk, creating a disturbance, pitching a tent that stays up 24 hours a day, etc.) that if they want to be left alone then they should be left alone. They should not be forced into a shelter where they going to be around all the kinds of people that they avoid being around on the streets. It is counter-productive. Bottom line is it is not illegal to be homeless, it shouldn’t be illegal to be homeless, and nobody of sound body and mind who is homeless should be forced by any government entity to go to a shelter run by some welfare agency if they do not choose to do so.
Rent control in unincorporated LA County extended through December
Bottom line: With rent control, comes an increase in demand for housing, and when rents are held artificially low by self-serving, economic illiterates like Janice Hahn, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Sheila Kuehl, and the other two thieves on the county BOS, renters will gobble up more of the available housing than they would in a naturally regulated market.
People need to wake up to the fact that – and this most critical point is lost in this piece – we have but five – FIVE – economic illiterates sitting on the board of supervisors who have control of the mismanaged cash box of a county with 10 million people in it. THAT – in and of itself – needs to change, and change quickly!
As for "Affordable Housing" in the Los Angeles basin – a term unheard of in places from Hermosa Beach, Rancho PV, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills, to Big Sur, coastal Spain, the island of Ibiza, and the beaches of Hawaii – is a futile dream! Further, when you consider that 66 percent of registered voters in L.A. County rent their primary residence, its easy to understand why the term "Affordable Housing" is such a valuable tool in the hands of the self-serving politician. The four little queens and one little king sitting on the BOS, cleverly use the term as a tool, ubiquitously prying votes out of the gullible.
Via authoritarian means, this board of supervisors have gotten away with forcing rent control onto property owners, while simultaneously vilifying said owners in the eyes of renters and the media and increasing the property/parcel taxes on the properties. Renters have historically, been exempt from such taxation while ALL property owners and mortgagors get hammered with more and more taxation to fund everything from "homeless services" to water reclamation.