The Housing Crisis Reveals How Much the Democrats Have Adopted Republican Policies Details
PLANNING WATCH-From the 1930s to the late 1960s the Democratic Party stood for two policies that successfully addressed this country’s chronic housing crisis: public housing and the minimum wage.
1) Public and publicly-subsidized housing. These housing policies, which date back to the New Deal, gradually ended beginning with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s and the dissolution of California’s Redevelopment Agencies in 2011. This shift was possible because the adoption of neo-liberal (trickle-down) housing policies was totally bipartisan.
2) Minimum wage laws. In this period, from the New Deal in the 1930s through the Great Society of the 1960s, the Democratic Party championed regular minimum wage increases. They began with $0.25/hour in 1938 and reached $7.25/hour in 2009, where the minimum wage has been stuck for 11 years. If the 2009 minim
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PLANNING WATCH-The Los Angeles City Planning Department recently announced that it is terminating work on its long-stalled Purple Line Extension Transit Neighborhood Plan (TNP).
Instead, it will fold this controversial developer give-away scheme into the forthcoming Update of the Wilshire Community Plan. That Update is scheduled to begin in 2022, which marks 20 years since the Wilshire Plan’s previous update and nine years since METRO first paid Los Angeles $4,480,000 to prepare the Purple Line and several other Transit Neighborhood Plans.
This is exactly what community representatives repeatedly requested from the two Council Offices representing the Miracle Mile area. In these meetings, plus on the pages of CityWatch, local residents raised serious objections to the Purple Line Transit Neighborhood Plan. In part they pointed out that: