Step 1: Dedicated bus-only lanes. Start with the Rapid Buses. Once they’re no longer bogged down amongst private automobiles, more people will take them.
Step 2: Improve train stations by adding public restrooms. Fund restrooms by leasing station space to shops, restaurants, vending machines, &c like they do in well-run metros (e.g. those of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).
I love the idea of taking Metro but every time I do, I regret it. The last time I took the red line, a crazy man violently knocked over a trash can and then stood there and urinated. There was no security to be found and even if there had been I doubt anything would have been done. I don’t feel safe or protected riding Metro. No rules are enforced, the stations are unsanitary, and there’s a lack of security. We have a breakdown of public decency in LA and it seems to be getting worse. The people with the worst behavior are the most protected.
She was saying when the Blue Line was closed, but yeah, it shouldn’t take 5 hours even so, although you have to figure she doesn’t live right on top of the station and her destination is probably not right on top of it either.
Perhaps in the future LA County will pay Uber & Lyft to run automated RVs, driving in circles & full of unhoused people. (They’ll be banned from parking for more than an hour in most neighborhoods.)
Inspired by Nipsey Hussle, they’re trying to ‘buy back’ South LA
California has been ran by democrats for years. Democrats don’t give a crap about the entire South LA region. METRO is the biggest gentrifier in SOCAL. We buy in SCLA and our most common seller is a grandbaby who inherits a house from the OG African American CITIZEN who has passed away. The wealth is already here….the youngsters are just to stupid to see it. Anyways, blacks will continue to struggle because of all the illegal immigrants that are allowed to setup shop in South and South Central LA. We will be ready to buy once you decide to sell. Blame a democrat if you want to blame anybody.
Inspired by Nipsey Hussle, they’re trying to ‘buy back’ South LA
This is untrue. Those black families have no intention of buying property ("The national rate of black homeownership is the lowest of any minority group"). Not even Carter will buy it because he says it’s too expensive. ("He says he hasn’t bought a home in South LA yet, because of how expensive it is.")
Housing prices will only keep getting more expensive. There should be more home ownership. Rent just goes down the drain. It doesn’t build wealth for renters.
Funny how you say they should advocate for increase of supply. They aren’t. They want more rent control that restricts supply. The city council and rent advocates also don’t want evictions of rental buildings to build more supply. This problem persists. On a personal basis, they must buy their own home with whatever housing stock there is. Only developers can afford to build in LA with the horrible expensive adverse business climate.
Inspired by Nipsey Hussle, they’re trying to ‘buy back’ South LA
Awfully hypocritical to own properties in Indiana and not buy in LA and complain about flippers. House flippers can only improve the property to comparable houses. They cannot go much higher. Many factors go into gentrification like buying an unmaintained and deteriorated house for below market rates and improving it and selling it as a nice house. Money is made where the previous owners neglected the property. It’s still a crappy neighborhood. I would never live there, thus the flippers. Flippers also exist in expensive neighborhoods, but you expect that.
Inspired by Nipsey Hussle, they’re trying to ‘buy back’ South LA
At least in part, this appears to be a group of investors purchasing property in South LA for investment purposes. This just accelerates gentrification by removing houses from the market that would otherwise be available for purchase by a family. With very little new housing being added to the city, the prices just get pushed up further.
If the group wants to have an effect on gentrification, it should advocate to increase supply in the area – and not focus on the purchase of existing housing stock.
Inspired by Nipsey Hussle, they’re trying to ‘buy back’ South LA
Personally, I feel that gentrification of a neighborhood is inevitable and that there isn’t very much anyone can do about it. There’s far too many factors that go into the changing of a neighborhood and real estate is simply a small part of it. That new stadium being built is the Thanos of everyone’s problems in that area. I wish them luck and hope their hearts are open to a little bit of change in South LA.