Portland City Council defers action on Accessory Dwelling Units lebanondemocrat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lebanondemocrat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The FAIR LA Housing Plan Allows Real Estate Speculators to Profit from the Housing Crisis – It’s Sophisticated Nonsense Details
PLANNING WATCH-A reader asked me to review Abundant Housing’s Fair LA housing plan.
It contains an elaborate formula, disconnected from the legally required planning process, to up-zone all of Los Angeles, with most up-zoning directed at affluent neighborhoods. If adopted, it would lift the zoning code’s restrictions on density, height, mass, and open space throughout the entire city. I have previously dubbed this approach to city planning urban Reaganomics because its goal is to increase housing supply through deregulation. But, unlike Ronald Reagan, its advocates pawn themselves off as “progressives” so their developer-friendly proposals can gain political traction in liberal Los Angeles. For example, they invoke the name of Bernie Sanders, while totally rejecting his approach to the housing crisis: restore HUD pu
What it will take to solve LA s homeless crisis – The Forward forward.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forward.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
California formalising: a story of deliberately designed inequality Share Add to Bookmarks
Self-initiated dwellings in Southern California support the formalised housing systems that surround them, while bearing the brunt of all risks
Southern California has remarkable topographic diversity, boasting mountains, rolling hills, canyons, valleys and deserts. Across this varied terrain, developers have built ticky-tacky houses, ‘little boxes all the same’. Yet woven around and between the multimillion-dollar mansions, luxury condos and middle-class stucco is an architectural diversity unseen in the everyday: repurposed materials have been shaped into housing and tucked into canyons. Tent cities emerge from dry riverbeds. Homeowners quietly rent out converted garages. Unhoused families use cars as bedrooms and living rooms. Most homeowners and renters are aware of alternate housing systems, but they are also uncertain: they do not know how many people are housed where, or un
Zoning ordinance amendments clarify and define common issues rappnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rappnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.