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L.A. City Council approves ‘mansion tax’ spending plan and program guidelines
1 month ago

L.A. City Council approves ‘mansion tax’ spending plan and program guidelines

LA Times  

DJ Yoon of Koreatown Immigrants Workers Alliance holds a sign that says “Measure ULA is for the protection of tenants” in Spanish during a news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to approve an ambitious set of program guidelines for spending hundreds of millions of dollars collected under the city’s Measure ULA …

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L.A. County half-cent homelessness sales tax heads toward November ballot
6 months, 3 weeks ago

L.A. County half-cent homelessness sales tax heads toward November ballot

LA Times  

L.A. County voters will decide in November whether to approve a new half-cent sales tax for homeless services across the region. Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to send a measure to the November ballot that would double the county’s homelessness sales tax to a half-cent to fund housing and homeless services. “There is no time to waste.” The money …

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The year of the ‘mansion tax’: Hundreds of millions raised, but a chill to L.A.’s luxury market
9 months, 2 weeks ago

The year of the ‘mansion tax’: Hundreds of millions raised, but a chill to L.A.’s luxury market

LA Times  

L.A.’s luxury residential market hasn’t recovered in the year since the “mansion tax” took effect. The tax brings a 4% charge to all property sales above $5 million and a 5.5% charge to all sales above $10 million in L.A. One year ago, Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” took effect. Critics, including many L.A. real estate professionals, claim the tax has …

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Civic groups launch campaign to double L.A. County’s quarter-cent homelessness sales tax
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Civic groups launch campaign to double L.A. County’s quarter-cent homelessness sales tax

LA Times  

A man who is homeless stands among tents and makeshift enclosures on Wilde Street in Los Angeles in 2020. An alliance of civic groups is gathering signatures to place a measure on the November ballot that would double L.A. County’s homelessness sales tax to a half-cent to raise more funds for housing,prevention and services. The money would fund homelessness programs, …

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Commentary: Biking in L.A. is fun. Now let’s make it safe
11 months ago

Commentary: Biking in L.A. is fun. Now let’s make it safe

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The campaign to pass Measure HLA — an initiative that would force Los Angeles to implement its own adopted street safety plan much faster than the current 160-year pace — paints a grim picture of biking and walking in the city. If I were leading the campaign to pass Measure HLA, the slogan would be, “Make L.A. fun again.” It’s …

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Endorsement: Yes on Measure HLA. Los Angeles needs safer, more bikeable, walkable streets
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Endorsement: Yes on Measure HLA. Los Angeles needs safer, more bikeable, walkable streets

LA Times  

Derrick Lewis visits a memorial for his mother-in-law, Trina Newman-Townsend, who was struck and killed by a driver on Dec. 24, 2022, on South Broadway in Los Angeles. That includes the city’s Mobility Plan 2035, an ambitious transportation vision adopted by the City Council and then-Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2015 that committed to redesigning streets over two decades to make …

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Measure J, L.A. County’s 2020 criminal justice reform measure, is constitutional, appellate court finds
1 year, 5 months ago

Measure J, L.A. County’s 2020 criminal justice reform measure, is constitutional, appellate court finds

LA Times  

Protesters demonstrate at Pan Pacific Park after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in 2020 after a white Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground with his knee. An appellate court has ruled that a sweeping Los Angeles County criminal justice reform initiative known as Measure J is constitutional, potentially paving the way for …

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Editorial: Is L.A. getting serious about safer streets?
2 years, 7 months ago

Editorial: Is L.A. getting serious about safer streets?

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A pedestrian in Los Angeles avoids a sidewalk badly in need of repair at the 2300 block of Griffith Park Boulevard in November 2021. Seven years ago Los Angeles adopted Mobility Plan 2035, an ambitious road map to make city streets more bikeable, walkable and safer over two decades. The groups began collecting signatures for the Healthy Streets LA ballot …

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