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Yeah I shut this cheer down in Houston. I get it in Chicago as a unifier once in a while. But in Houston ALDS amongst die hard Sox fans… it’s just absurd. Maybe just need some new chants?
Why the fuck are there Fuck Green Bay chants in Lot B right now?
The Sox just pissed away a generational opportunity to clinch a playoff series at home but all we can think about is football.
Extremely sad little brother behavior.
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Check out Missing Middle LA - legalizing ADU condo sales, making SB9 lot splits easier, and building on the Starter Home Revitalization Act (SHRA) to expand small lot subdivisions, townhomes, condos and other more attainable forms of ownership. planning.lacity.gov/plans-po…
A big problem Los Angeles faces:
Our rental market is reasonably affordable right now (notwithstanding what you hear in the media).
However, bc starter homes are so expensive, upwardly mobile young people without family money, who almost universally want to be home-owners, quite sensibly move away or never come here in the first place.
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This is illegal in CA
With a low supply of townhouses in the West Village, wealthy buyers are turning apartment buildings into single-family homes. The tenement at 80 Horatio, formerly an 8-unit walk-up, sold last year and is being converted to a mansion. curbed.com/article/west-vill…
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@tristandpeters from the White Sox has just accomplished 5 day hitting streak that has never been done before
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LA Mayoral hopeful @nithyavraman talks (mostly) housing in questions from David Remnick on the New Yorker radio hour. Started by emphasizing that LA has the largest housing shortage and most unaffordable rents - and this is not a coincidence. overcast.fm/podcasts/episode…
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3500 units of affordable housing in Woodland Hills. ED1 FTW.
The first stage of exiting a housing crisis. Getting back to somewhat normal household formation levels. For so long, people in LA were less likely for form new households than nearly anywhere else in the US. Things are moving in the right direction but there’s a long way to go
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Munetaka Murikama ties Aaron Judge for league lead 14th homer #whitesox What a sound off the bat! White Sox are now .5 game out 😆
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We’ve entered the phase of the development cycle where a drive-thru Taco Bell in the middle of LA makes more sense to build bs 123 units.
Interesting - a majority of tax credit units are inhabited by extremely low income (30% AMI) households despite units targeting this group accounting for only 15% of the total stock. Most are likely paying unaffordable rents but (in theory) benefit from the subsidies.
A recent study published in Housing Policy Debate by Ann Owens, “Who Is LIHTC Built for? The Distribution of Affordable Housing Units by Rents, Tenant Incomes, and Project Features in California,” finds that although the majority of California's LIHTC tenants are extremely low-income, only a small share of LIHTC units are targeted to them.
Read more: nlihc.org/resource/majority-…
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Hey @LAUSDSup let’s get it done! LA City basically gave LAUSD and other public entities land use authority to build through recent rezoning programs
San Diego Unified is building 3,000 homes for teachers and district staff on six sites using private developers, no taxpayer construction funds, and built-in backup plans.
timesofsandiego.com/housing/…
Amazing - kudus to ED1 @MayorOfLA.
It is sort of weird that efforts to deter investment and prevent integration could be seen as in line with fair housing law… so HCDs guidelines promote “protective” redlining?
Curious twist on NIMBYism & civil rights in this @emily_hoeven story:
Western SOMA residents, fed up w/ tents, piss, poop & fentanyl clogging their sidewalks, want @California_HCD to decertify S.F.'s housing plan & unleash market-rate development in their neighborhood.
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This is a new *optional* way to mitigate transportation impacts which otherwise often require actual construction of roadway improvements, which require loads of time, $$ and uncertainty working with public works departments. This should be cheaper, easier, quicker more certain
I’m a huge fan of Jennifer Hernandez, and her latest for @cityjournal exposes what I like to call immaculate-conception progressivism.
Hernandez zeroes in on AB 130, a law that has attracted very little attention but that will have huge consequences. In short, the law creates a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) mitigation fee — potentially $1,350/month added to the cost of new homes outside transit corridors, falling hardest on exactly the market-rate suburban projects most likely to be affordable to ordinary families.
Just to be clear, a mitigation fee this high is designed to kill affordable sprawl.
California progressives understand that their state faces an acute housing shortage. That is good. But they seem to believe that California can meet housing demand while building only transit-adjacent urban infill that meets stringent affordability requirements — housing that is immaculately green, equitable, etc.
As Hernandez observes, however, high-density urban infill is just about the most expensive housing you can build. Land costs, regulatory complexity, and construction costs in California's transit corridors routinely push rents above $3,000/month — before any new fees. I don't doubt that some number of working- and middle-class California families would love to live in these apartments, but they'll have a hard time affording them without large subsidies and, importantly, they'll have an even harder time commuting to service jobs or jobs in logistics, warehousing, light manufacturing, etc., outside of urban cores.
The housing shortage is a mass-market problem. It requires mass-market solutions: homes that pencil out at prices ordinary families can afford, in the suburban and exurban areas where blue-collar jobs and land are (relatively) abundant.
Unless I’m missing something, this is just unbelievably perverse.
city-journal.org/article/cal…
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music.apple.com/us/album/rai… Dilla banger re-jazzed by @MdCL and Tomasso Cappellato off a great new Dreamweavers II LO