12+ hour, 19+ min ago  (548+ words) HOUSING - On July 7, in California, the Redwood City Council gave the green light to place a rent stabilization initiative on the November local ballot. Tenants and activists, led by'Faith in Action Bay Area, gathered the signatures to make the measure…...

12+ hour, 9+ min ago  (321+ words) PLANNING WATCH - Anyone, like me, who has worked at LA's City Hall, knows that real estate investors(i. e. , capitalists) are everywhere in the building. They comes in all sizes, from big capitalist investors to small, but they are there, including a…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (839+ words) City Watch LA - Next Article SB 1116 (Starter Home Revitalization Act): Another Real Estate Scam OP|ED - The Los Angeles Planning Department recently unveiled in June 2026 its so-called "Missing Middle" ordinance (MMO). A more accurate name would be the "Missing Common…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (346+ words) California Senate Bill 1116 is a major housing bill that streamlines and "loophole-proofs" the construction of smaller, lower-cost "starter" homes. "To do this, it prevents local governments from delaying qualifying townhome and condo projects." Under this legislation, they would become strictly…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1013+ words) ACCORDING TO LIZ -Approximately 15. 1 million homes, representing 10. 3% of the U. S. housing inventory, stood vacant in 2025. As evictions due to the current administration's draconian cuts to social programs increase, the number of empty properties will continue to rise " along with the number…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (158+ words) Rendering of potential Tier 2 SB 79 apartment building Yet this is the housing rreality of Los Angeles, at least in the upzoning of Los Angeles required by recently adopted SB 79." Despite the opposition of LA elected officials, after 2030 SB 79 will eventually…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (541+ words) More luxury housing is a boon for corporate landlords and developers, who can charge sky-high rents and swiftly rake in massive profits. But that agenda does nothing to urgently help the poor and middle and working class, who are drowning…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago  (426+ words) PLANNING WATCH - There are vacant houses and apartments across Los Angeles, yet LA's City Hall insists that we have a housing shortage that can only be met with'widescale up-zoning that allows more housing on existing land.' Unstated is the obvious,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (453+ words) The restoration industry used to have seasonal trends. There would be an event, workers would mobilize, claims would be closed, and then the industry would wait for the next event to happen. The state of California has mostly eliminated this…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (145+ words) PLANNING WATCH - One of the ironies of Los Angeles is the simultaneous increase in homeless and overcrowding when vacancy rates are also increasing." How can we explain this? Both explanations have a kernel of truth, but the second one explains…...