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Just got an updated figure from the city that six SB 9 permit applications have been received in the Palisades. Those projects are considered vested but the city won't accept any more per yesterday's executive actions.

the dream never dies

After outcry, L.A. restricts duplexes in Pacific Palisades Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is restricting duplex construction in Pacific Palisades after an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom to weaken a state housing law. But despite fears of greater density...

Fascinated by the reaction in Pacific Palisades to duplexes vs. casitas.

Roughly 15% of permit applications include an ADU and the process is streamlined. A handful of duplex projects proposed and the outcry pushed the governor to exempt the Palisades from state law. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

So close!!

New York and Miami?

After outcry, L.A. restricts duplexes in Pacific Palisades Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is restricting duplex construction in Pacific Palisades following an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom to weaken state housing law. But despite fears of greater densi...

A new milestone in Pacific Palisades this week. 500 homeowners have applied for rebuilding permits after January's wildfire. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

After outcry, L.A. restricts duplexes in Pacific Palisades Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is restricting duplex construction in Pacific Palisades following an executive order from Gov. Gavin Newsom to weaken state housing law. But despite fears of greater densi...

A flurry of action from Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in the last few days has led to a ban on new duplex construction in Pacific Palisades.

ADU building, however, continues to be expedited and is popular among rebuilding residents. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

After push from L.A., Newsom plans to weaken state duplex law in wildfire areas On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom intends to weaken Senate Bill 9, which allows for as many as four homes on single-family lots, in wildfire affected communities. This week, L.A. City Councilmember Trac...

After a push from L.A. elected officials, Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to issue an executive order weakening the state’s landmark duplex law in wildfire affected regions of the county www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

Abundance, Part 1: Are Environmental Protections Blocking Housing? Podcast Episode · Boiling Point · 07/24/2025 · 39m

Have CA’s environmental protections been blocking new housing — and therefore climate progress?

On this week’s Boiling Point podcast, I’m talking “abundance” & CEQA reform with my @latimes.com colleague @liamjdillon.com. Please listen before firing off your take: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U....

Powerful and devastating work from @brittnymejia.bsky.social

Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas www.latimes.com/california/s...

Housing activist who 'reclaimed' state-owned home dies amid eviction protest Benito Flores, 70, was found dead Friday in the backyard of his state-owned home. Supporters say he fell from a tree house he was using to protest his eviction.

A 70-year-old housing activist who seized a state-owned home in Los Angeles more than five years ago died this week after apparently falling from a 28-foot-high treehouse he built in the backyard in an attempt to block his eviction. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

agree! life changing when I moved there in 09

yeah that's def an upgrade

Absolutely. And this also helped fuel legitimate news orgs running with it without knowing what they're talking about abc3340.com/news/nation-...

Conspiracy theories thwart rebuilding plan after L.A. County wildfires After a social media firestorm based on misinformation, a proposal to create a new housing authority to help rebuild after January's wildfires fails to pass in the state Legislature.

Total nightmare fuel about the decaying media landscape on public policy. Reality show stars with 2m followers using AI to spread misinformation; anonymous but verified X accounts called HustleBitch with 124k followers spreading conspiracies; fact-based media failing www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

Screenshot of article saying Coronado agrees to support affordable housing after state pressure.

Screenshot of article saying Coronado has not built any affordable housing.

A good reminder that California's affordable housing regime requires PLANNING for low-income housing and not CONSTRUCTION of low-income housing. (Obviously, some reasonable reasons for this, but for all the heat that housing element conversations get they don't mean housing gets built.)

Healthcare Cuts Threaten Covered California / CEQA Reform and the Future of Housing / Oakland's Leila Mottley on 'The Girls Who Grew Big' State of the Bay examines the impact of federal healthcare cuts on Covered California, breaks down California’s new CEQA reforms, and talks with Oakland author Leila Mottley about her new novel "The Girls Who Grew Big."

What's the impact of the big new CEQA changes? We discuss @stateofthebay.bsky.social 6pm PT w/@liamjdillon.com, @cselmendorf.bsky.social & Kim Delfino

+ federal tax bill's impact on CA health coverage
+ novelist Leila Mottley

Tune in/stream live @kalwradio.bsky.social!
www.kalw.org/show/state-b...

Matt Tobias. lol as if my two partners were one

Support your local newspaper.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

LeBron to Luka: Inside the most delicate superstar transition in NBA history For months, publicly and privately, the Lakers have been signaling their desire to begin the Luka Doncic era in Los Angeles, even if it meant ending the LeBron James one.

Every story is a housing story.

"James has been building his forever home on a hilltop in Beverly Hills for the past five years; it reportedly took him three years just to get all the permits."

www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

With carpenters’ help, California eases housing rules—and sparks labor clash California’s new environmental reform law, backed by carpenters, eases housing construction rules but deepens divisions within the labor movement.

For those interested in construction union politics in California — and you should be if you want to understand why major housing legislation passes or fails — this @calmatters.org story is really helpful calmatters.org/politics/202...

Graphic showing increasing permit applications weekly in Pacific Palisades

Six months after January's fires, 8% of homeowners in Pacific Palisades have applied for permits to rebuild www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

How major new housing reform will affect homebuilding in California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislators passed a major reform of the California Environmental Quality Act on Monday. The new laws remove a key point of leverage for project opponents that has bee...

My analysis of this week's major development reforms in California and what it means for homebuilding. In short, those who live across the street from a proposed apartment building will have to find a way other than a 55-year-old environmental law to stop it. www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

Newsom pushes major housing reform through California Legislature Gov. Gavin Newsom tied the state budget to the passage of policy to lessen environmental review standards to speed up the construction of housing in California.

Newsom pushes major housing reform through California Legislature

My understanding is that the other CEQA bill will eliminate CEQA review for rezonings anticipated by housing element changes since the housing element will have undergone CEQA review already

Indefensible Spaces by Rahim Kurwa - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Looking forward to reading this new book by @rahimk.bsky.social on Black migration in Los Angeles to the Antelope Valley and the resistance from existing residents and law enforcement www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

That’s what I played growing up. Good guess!

Mold and sewage plague South L.A. apartments even after inspections, tenants say At the 425-unit Chesapeake Apartments in South Los Angeles, tenants complain that the city and their landlord have ignored problems for a long time.

Here's Aaron's story and one of mine.

CalDOJ says the lawsuit against Nijjar was the result of a more than two year investigation into him and his businesses

projects.laist.com/2020/pama/

www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...

Nijjar's real estate empire has been the subject of numerous media stories over the years. In 2020, @amendelson.bsky.social published a lengthy investigation of dangerous habitability problems at his properties. A couple years later, I looked at major issues at a large complex in South LA