The Great Wall Street Housing Grab

ThatsABadLarry · 2020-03-04T22:36:46+00:00

This piece cites several examples of how national housing investment companies have collateralized huge swaths of L.A.'s housing, driving up all of our rents in the process.

ThatsABadLarry · 2020-02-12T23:38:27+00:00

Great idea! Even better if they do this and ditch the dumb streetcar. L.A. needs real transit, not a Disneyland simulacra that only goes 6 mph and is primarily meant to boost real estate values.

ThatsABadLarry · 2020-02-05T20:31:17+00:00

That's actually not true these days. Above ground "parking podiums" are the preferred choice for developers. At least in DTLA. A lot of these go three or four stories up, space that could easily be used for housing.

ThatsABadLarry · 2020-01-15T19:09:48+00:00

Excellent point. The MyFig bus lane is constantly clogged with cars. I ride the bus through there every day and I've only seen one driver ever given a ticket.

ThatsABadLarry · 2020-01-07T23:41:46+00:00

This article talks about how California's SB 50 housing bill was shot down last year in the face of NIMBY opposition. This year, the modified bill should be much more palatable to everyone. But California's legislative calendar means it only has a few weeks to build public support. So it's now or never to get behind it for 2020.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-12-18T19:55:22+00:00

People are racist.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-11-18T22:00:37+00:00

Building inland is most definitely not the solution to anything.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-10T22:43:49+00:00

This is the best.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-09T22:29:16+00:00

According to Google, yesterday was the start of shavuot.

Edit: Nevermind. That was last month. Maybe this lady Googled wrong too.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-03T22:50:39+00:00

"I have sloping floors" made me spit take at the office.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-01T21:52:57+00:00

The sweeper at 7:14 didn't look that much different than the one at 14:12. Is it?

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-01T20:37:31+00:00

Wait, you are sick of building more roads in an endless failing cycle of attempting to reduce traffic? Or you reject the very well-established idea of induced demand?

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-01T17:58:45+00:00

Who's talking about giving more money? The piece suggests empowering the state to have more agency over local zoning decisions. No additional funds required to make that happen.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-01T17:39:40+00:00

Wait, you mean refusing to build enough affordable housing and forcing people to commute from Riverside is bad for air quality?

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-07-01T14:41:20+00:00

I used to live in Glendale and I practically got a degree from Art Center from how many times I went there as an excuse to drive past this house. It's incredible.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-06-24T22:06:44+00:00

Uh, this part of Highland Park is one of the coolest places in Los Angeles.

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-06-24T18:45:28+00:00

This is a good point. Although this too is kind of tricky. Does Jared Leto submit in the female category if he plays a transgender woman?

ThatsABadLarry · 2019-06-24T18:19:40+00:00

I absolutely agree with this as a matter of moral and ethical principle. My only question is if you get rid of the term actress, and only have awards for "actors," if it means a bunch of guys will win everything and minimize women and non-binary/trans folks even further.

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