Calling Blackstone a 'red herring' in arguments over the impacts of statewide upzoning, Josh Stephens argues the best way to hamper speculators is to override local control over planning in an effort to produce more housing.

TPR shares this letter by LA City Councilmember Paul Koretz outlining his opposition to the state legislature's supply-side approach to housing affordability.

TPR interviews Kerry C. Duggan, who as an Obama administration official spent 6.5 years embedded into Detroit City Hall to provide technical assistance to the city during and after its municipal bankruptcy in 2013. Duggan underlines the importance of local capacity building and place-based policymaking in efforts to Build Back Better.

Jake Levine was appointed to serve as the first Chief Climate Officer of the US Development Finance Corporation tasked with guiding the agency to a net-zero portfolio by 2040. With $60 billion to invest through a variety of financial instruments, in this TPR interview, Levine shares how the DFC is totally rebalancing its investments towards clean energy and supporting climate adaptation, resilience, and economic development globally.

In this op-ed, appearing originally in the LA Times and republished by TPR with permission, Sen. Hertzberg argues for addressing wealth inequality with a state program—like Governor Newsom's proposal to create and fund college savings accounts for low-income children—to foster an ownership share for all Californians in the wealth produced here.

In this TPR Interview, the former City Manager of Santa Monica, former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, and former Mayor of Pasadena (to name a few) elaborates on incorporating new urbanist principles into planning and design and highlights precedent-setting cities nationwide leading the way on legalizing walkable urbanism and livable places.

TPR interviews MUSE/IQUE’s Artistic Director Rachael Worby and CEO Brian Colburn, who highlight MUSE/IQUE’s upcoming place-based program “L.A. Composed,” which celebrates the streets of Los Angeles as unique intersections where people and culture come together to form place