Read the full article … “The Los Angeles Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC LA) has created a toolkit for local cities with the following solutions they can deploy to help ease the burdens faced by affordable housing owners and preserve…
Beyond nursing homes
Read the full article … “Why it matters: Deaths in nursing homes and residential care facilities account for 45% of COVID-19 related deaths, per the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity — but there are few other viable housing options…
Connecticut has an opportunity to tackle housing segregation. It appears to be taking a pass.
Read the full article … “Despite its liberal reputation — and Democrats controlling the legislature for the last 23 years and the governor’s mansion for nine — Connecticut is one of the most segregated places in the country. And with…
Zoning and Race: If Black Lives Matter, then City Zoning Laws Must Change
Read the full article … “Despite turning out in large numbers in public demonstrations to proclaim that Black Lives Matter, many white people seem less willing to make Black neighbors welcome. The battleground is towns that, as one picket sign…
New Rule on Environmental Impacts of Driving, Long Awaited, Goes Into Effect
Read the full article … “Shenanigans to sidestep CEQA won’t stop, but the focus will shift from the current practice of mitigating congestion by building wider, faster roads – thus encouraging more driving and indeed ensuring it is the only…
Meet the McCloskeys: How Private Places Act as a Form of Spatial Anti-Blackness in St. Louis
Read the full article … “Two white homeowners threatened the lives of Black Lives Mater protestors in on a private street in St. Louis yesterday, raising questions about anti-Black racism in pseudo-public space.” … Read the full article
LA County Homeless Numbers Jump Another 12.7%
Read the full article … “According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the homeless count conducted in January found that the county’s homeless population increased by 12.7% over the previous year, while the city of Los Angeles’ homeless population…
The neighborhoods where COVID collides with overcrowded homes
Read the full article … “The pandemic has layered a health crisis on top of a housing crisis on top of a class divide.” … Read the full article
How Fresno is confronting its history of racism
Read the full article … “While protesters have raised concerns about police brutality locally, residents of Fresno’s historically black neighborhoods say other forms of systemic racism have deep generational roots in California’s fifth largest city — as they do in…
Housing Needs Cycle Should Match Population and Jobs
Read the full article … “Decades of failing to plan for future generations have left our region with crushing housing costs, overcrowded dwellings in the COVID-19 pandemic, and devastating displacement of communities.” … Read the full article