Results for “silver lake”

The links to the Ellis Act and AirBnB are utterly ridiculous. I hope the author took a nice long shower after writing this to clean off the pander. You may as well have linked in the drought and the rising cost of Italian marble.

Southern California will always have a homeless problem because if you’re going to be homeless, it’s about as good as you can do for year-round living. And it’s a problem that can NEVER be solved by adding housing. The most basic way to demonstrate that is that there is plenty of very affordable housing in San Bernadino and the weather is similar enough. If the problem were just "housing is too expensive! blame AirBnB!" then all the homeless would be living in San Bernadino (or Lancaster, or Lake Elsinore, or your pick).

As noted repeatedly here, the issue is almost ALWAYS with mental health, or drugs/alcohol. If you’re clean and sober, walk into a church or mission or food bank and ask for help. I always wonder about why these peoples’ families and friends don’t help out? I had to caretake for a sibling coming out of rehab for a few months, and while it put a damper on my bachelor lifestyle, it’s called taking care of your FAMILY and it’s what you do as a decent human being (that sibling moved to a cheaper place in the Midwest and is now living a clean, healthy, employed life).

In the end it makes me sad that for each of these people, they were abandoned by everyone who claimed to care for them. Where are the parents? the siblings? the cousins? the high school friends? the teammates?

It kills me how politicians call it the drought and the media just agrees with them instead of doing what journalists used to do, investigate!. Because I am in Texas and we have been in a drought. But that drought was not so severe that our lakes would dry up. They did though. Now after all the recent rains, I wonder what will be used as an excuse next? Most citizens do not know that fracking wells also have another well attached that leads to the nearest body of water. They are the wells that literally siphon millions of gallons of water daily for the water injection process. The same fracking process that causes the quakes. Because all those millions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals are injected under rock at a rapid rate. Well, the last I checked , rock does not expand. I live in a lake town. And in one year the lake was at critically low levels. I’m sorry but it would take some seriously high temps to dry up a lake that fast! That isn’t what’s happening! We need to stand up and shout NO MORE! Our politicians are criminals for allowing this to happen.

@pmw1: Good idea, but South L.A. has enough problems. Build those services and housing in Silver Lake and West L.A.

@Fallopia Simms: If by "reclaim its original self" you mean high streets with shops and apartments up top servicing single family neighborhoods as can be found in Hollywood, Silver Lake, Lis Feliz, Melrose, Koreatown, etc., then I full heartedly support your views. If you’re peddling a revisionist, Density!™ scheme eliminating the SFR element then you’re being the disingenuous ignoramus you pretend to despair. Which is it?

I’m just glad she’s moving out of Toluca Lake! Our neighborhood can finally return to what it was once her stank clears out.

Any idiot that knows a modicum of Los Angeles history knows that it was a streetcar, pedestrian oriented city first before it was a car city primarily emerging post wwII. Why would there be nearly 3000 public staircases laid out across a large swath of Central LA. The corporations started the classist bullshit about driving and cars to simply sell their product. If you would take your head from deeply within your ass and look around at original urban form then you would see how mass transit first shaped the City. Strange 5 point intersections that are very difficult to navigate in a car but smart for street running light rail. Triangular shaped lots and large grassy medians like San Vicente must kindle some sort of inquisitive thinking in your dull brains. Some of the most famous commercial strips in Central LA (Hollywood, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Melrose, Koreatown etc) built without parking…..on and on.
What LA needs to do (Central LA primarily) is to reclaim its original self from what the oil, rubber and car manufacturers did to it after the Post War butchering.
Easy way to identify a History of LA dumbass? The first thing they’ll say is "the car built LA". Followed up by "LA is too spread out for mass transit". Mass transit IS what made it famously "spread out" ignoramus.

I wonder where things stand with the future Silver Lake location. I certainly hope this doesn’t preclude what would without doubt become my location.

I make it to the West Hollywood location only occasionally and goodness Malibu is on the other side of the world.

P.S.- My dream house most certainly is NOT in Echo Park or Silver Lake! I’m dreaming of a Silent film era Mediterranean in Los Feliz or Outpost Estates, or perhaps Whitley Heights, impeccably restored and flawlessly decorated by Timothy Corrigan with a mix of museum-quality antiques, fascinating art and a truly massive wine cellar. Not going to find it for $1200 a month, alas, but I keep dreaming.

A "Storybook" cottage in Beachwood Canyon might be nice, too, except for all the tourists trying to take pictures of the Hollywood sign, but I’d finesse them if could have Wolf’s Lair or Madonna’s old crib!

The unit is spectacular, but like others have said; $995 HOA? F.U! Not even close to being acceptable for an older building with what seems like nothing more than a doorman and valet parking.

Oh, and the designer went overboard with the chrome/silver industrial decor.

Let the jetpacks go to Lake Elsinore (or equiv.), where they can do less damage. They are a danger to all the other boaters, sailors, swimmers, kayakers, paddle boarders, etc.
I think they are totally cool, however not in such a public, conjested harbor…
As far as the noise, it not just a noise concern for the homeowners, but also everyone tring to enjoy the peace of the harbor.

Giant creepy rabbit statues are stationary, and, last I observed. quiet…. :) Plus you can dress them up in cool holiday outfits, so they’ve got that going for them… ;)