New permit requirements in the city of Los Angeles have made it difficult for street vendors to sell goods in Leimert Park Village. Local organizers are working to obtain a long-term permit.
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As SF moves to Austin this model of community self-preservation movement becomes increasingly important - including the Zoom-like tools to simplify organizing and teaching. Affordable housing and maintaining livability will increasingly be huge challenges, ones that people experience every day, rather than the more distant global warming, etc. And not just in the US - Kinshasa is predicted to quadruple in size by 2050. The Economics 101 wisdom from my college has been that rent control raises prices, but rampant speculation and the opening up of international markets to players with tens of billions to invest means there s no sane real estate model ahead - it s a scarce commodity inviting in sharks to plunder and extort. How to preserve the local hood? Invest in political power, organizing - the new neighborhood watch