TPR shares this article from February 2025 by Urban Institute on the potential impact that mass deportations would have construction labor and housing production

TPR excerpts Jigar Shah and Raj Pannu sounding the alarm on America’s crumbling infrastructure and its implications for economic competitiveness, energy resilience, and everyday quality of life.

Authored by Councilmembers Bob Blumenfield and Nithya Raman, the motion directs city departments to study the potential benefits of eliminating mandatory off-street parking minimums.

Dan Rosenfeld revisits the civic pride and creative momentum that defined the 1984 Olympic Games, and with 2028 fast approaching, asks whether today’s fractured, resource-strained city can recapture that same unity of vision, design, and purpose.

TPR shares here William Deverell’s foreward to:Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’sEdge, by authors–Geraldine Knatz and NaomiHirahara

TPR interviewed Mott Smith to elaborate on the unintended consequences of Measure ULA, which has both stymied commercial, industrial, and residential real estate development, and failed to generate the revenue promised,

TPR publishes recent remarks from California Assembly Appropriations Committee Chair Buffy Wicks, delivered at the LABC Mayoral Housing, Transportation and Jobs Summit in which she underscores the urgent need for reforming the state’s permitting and regulatory processes, particularly CEQA, to accelerate housing production, reduce costs, and meet California’s clean energy and climate goals.