Half full buildings with high rents are preferable to full buildings with low rents. Vacant units are not calculated in average $/sf so they can keep things artificially inflated and leverage, or at least show off to their landlord buddies at lunch (have seen many times firsthand).
Silly rabbit, rents don’t go down. Landlords would rather have the entire building vacant and rent it out for parties and grow houses that let that happen. Signed, someone who has worked in the real estate management industry for years.
The Carvalho (LAUSD Sup) FBI investigation is breaking everyone’s brains.
Is it retaliatory because of PHBAO and his refusal to cooperate with ICE?
Is it legit because he actually is super shady in many ways, even got sued by our last superintendent for misuse of funds?
Or a bit of both?
Fred from Mystery Incorporated stands with arms crossed standing directly next to a smug man in hat and suit and tie. Fred says, "All of this sounds VERY EXPENSIVE.This is a LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOOD. The people who live here CAN'T AFFORD apartments like those! If you tear down their homes, where are all the POOR PEOPLE supposed to live?" The man replies, "I guess they'll just have to move to the SUBURBS like everyone else."
On a single street in Altadena, 15 houses were total losses after the Eaton Fire.
One year later, our own David Brancaccio gives us an update on how he and his Altadena neighbors are rebuilding: www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
Trying to understand how much your rent can go up? For tenants in Southern California, it’s confusing. To sort it all out, we’ve put together a short guide on rent control laws across Southern California.
✍️&📸 David Wagner
🛍️ What do you remember about Valley Plaza? 🛍️
The North Hollywood mall is getting partially torn down after being declared a public nuisance after years of neglect, but it was once a thriving icon of modern shopping.
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The critical need to protect JPL from the approaching fire appears to have diverted public safety resources from West Altadena, and likely contributed to the enormous loss of life and structures there.
JPL appears to be lying by omission about what many first responders, lab staff and public servants know to be true about the dangerous conditions on their property.
We are publishing her letter in the public interest, recognizing that its contents are extremely disturbing and will likely exacerbate the trauma that Eaton Fire survivors are living with and cause upset to members of the wider San Gabriel Valley and scientific communities.
But today, Shelby Eidson sent a letter to JPL’s Director David Gallagher, NASA’s Acting Director Sean Duffy and to NASA’s General Counsel Iris Lan that lays out the public safety concerns her work reveals.
To our surprise, JPL’s social media accounts posted in our comment section with an extremely strong denial; we updated our post to direct concerned readers to their response.
On 9/29, we were reading the agenda for the LA County Supervisors’ 9/30 meeting for the first airing of the McChrystal Group’s after-action reviews on the Eaton and Palisades Fires, and spotted something alarming in the public comment section (see pages 2-3). file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos...
This is probably the toughest document we've ever published, and we do so recognizing it will contribute to Eaton Fire survivors' trauma.
Critical Safety Concerns at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, an open letter from independent researcher Shelby Eidson. esotouric.substack.com/jpl
Impossible to understate the impact this book had
A man with blond/gray short hair and beard, wearing glasses and a pink shirt, holding up a copy of the book NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman.
10th Anniversary Edition of NeuroTribes. To say that seeing the first copy of this was bittersweet is an immense understatement.
Literally on fire if it’s Arthur Aslanian, who set fire to his property while his low income tenants were sleeping there.
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Anyway, yay for walkable cities with solid public transit! Boo for the developers who might set half the working class LA neighborhoods on fire in order to do it
File under: Empty Los Angeles. 5418 Franklin Avenue is a cute 6-unit 1920s/1950s complex with two family sized 3 bedroom units, on the market for $1.8M. It is 50% vacant, like too many rent stabilized buildings in walkable Los Angeles neighborhoods. www.loopnet.com/Listing/5418...
File under: Empty Los Angeles. The El Nido Hotel at 1042 N Wilcox contains 38 RSO units. It is completely vacant and can be yours for $5.2M--more than $2M more than it sold for last year with 15 tenants. www.compass.com/listing/1042...
The depravity of Scott Wiener pushing #SB79 on LA.
Hoping this new density law won’t help what I saw developers do in city hall this week and get approval from LA city planning/council to knock down SEVEN rent stabilized apt buildings in order to build a luxury high rise in E. Hollywood w/only 16/139 affordable units while displacing 50 residents
LA sues Airbnb, accusing rental platform of price gouging after January fires
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The LA Weekly raised me from a rebellious teen in the 90’s, thru my aughts hipster 20’s until it’s sale and mass layoffs in my mom years, maybe ~8 years ago. Really exceptional reporting, and counted Jonathan Gold as a contributor.
Anyway. I have two book projects on my desk right now but I'm thinking I might like to edit an anthology of alt-weeklies, 1970s-90s. I'd exclude the Village Voice, which is well-represented elsewhere. Alts from San Diego, LA, Boston, DC, Seattle; Cleveland, Albany, Denver...
What started as a search for some of my first publications has led me to reading through the San Diego Reader of the early 1990s. It is, overall, astonishingly good. But then, there were alt-weeklies like it across the U.S. Almost all gone or hollowed out. Nothing has replaced them.
Aw poor baby troll doesn’t know the history of colonization and how it influences naming. That’s ok, as long as you promise to never ever visit Los Angeles, I won’t bother you about it!
2 of the 44 were white European Spanish, the rest were brown and black www.laalmanac.com/history/hi03...
Santa Monica is still majority white in 2025 and the Hispanic population is around 15%. This is why they are known for bland Mexican food.
It hasn’t really changed that much since he was born. As a reminder, Los Angeles was founded by black and brown Spanish speaking migrants from Sonora.
