Silver Lake’s largest residential property seeks $6M
The views are nice, but the design was prepared by an academic a la mode. There are redeeming features, but the entry foyer looks looks like an abandoned 80’s shopping mall. I hope the sellers are reasonable on offers and a selling price.
California sending 30 trailers to LA to shelter the homeless
So what exactly does the new "California Access to Housing Services Fund" do? This money comes from surplus of $250 million dollars. Surplus from where that they could not find it last year. How many affordable units will be built and by when? The TOC program for example only mandates a maximum of 25% of units be affordable, so the remaining will be market rate and luxury units, so that will not solve the affordable housing crises. So where will LA put this money in that they never created a central agency for the Prop HHH monies? The problem is not lack of money but lack of leadership and Ridley Thomas is just as bad as the rest of them. Does Ridley-Thomas has jurisdiction to give the money to South LA? What about downtown? https://wp.me/P57D2C-LR
Maybe next time don’t make single-family homeowners and historic neighborhoods the bad guys and focus more on redeveloping our run-down commercial zones and offering truly affordable housing. And how about flat out saying LA is off the hook since we have added so much housing already. The increase in traffic that Angelenos have been forced to accept seems to count for nothing with the folks in Sacramento. This bill cannot be amended into a good one and any future efforts would be more successful with someone other than Scott Weiner as the champion. LA =/= SF.
Agreed. When the "extreme/abnormal" doesn’t even register as such, you have to question some things. If the market maintains a 3% growth rate (fairly modest) – that $1.7M house is going for ~$2.0M in just 6 years. That $400K-500K income requirement goes to $500-600K. LA (and other major cities) is going to need to continue to pump out very very well paying jobs for this to continue. There’s virtually no room for error at these valuations.
Electric scooters are coming back to Chicago. Here’s what the city learned.
I could get on board with these scooters if they deployed docking stations similar to the DIVVY bikes. I have seen what these scooters have done to cities like Baltimore, LA, and San Francisco. I don’t see much of a difference of everyday litter and these darn scooters lying across sidewalks. I have tried them around USC; they are fun. I do get the appeal, but if these were to become a practical method of getting around, we need to manage them properly.
People don’t just park in the middle of the street when they finish driving, not usually at least. Bikes go in bike racks. There is a sense of organization these tech companies seem not to understand or grasp. I want to enjoy my time walking on city streets, not go through high school track hurdling these scooters.
A guide to the subway formerly known as the Red Line
I think very late 2023 is the estimate, but the way building goes in LA it will probably be delayed. The Crenshaw Line was supposed to open in 2019 and now it looks like 2021. The Regional Connector is delayed too.
How to fix (almost) anything in your LA neighborhood
The city of LA is pretty slow to respond for many of these requests – they are overwhelmed and understaffed. noise complaints in particular are not easy to resolve. But hey, give it a shot. Maybe you’ll get lucky
A guide to the subway formerly known as the Red Line
IF they extend the B line further south on Vermont, they should stop running the B line to Union Station. Instead, the B line and D line become 2 separate lines and no longer run parallel together. B line runs north to south. The D line runs west to east. Again, they are too focused on one area. LA is too vast of a city to figure out mass transit.