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June 17, 2025

Vanessa Delgado: SCAQMD Chair & Mission-Driven Developer

TPR interviewed Vanessa Delgado, president of Azure Development and adjunct professor at USC Price who shares her personal journey developing mixed-use affordable housing in Boyle Heights and elaborates on project development hurdles roiling the market in LA.

June 17, 2025

Mass Deportations Will Worsen Our Housing Crisis

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

June 17, 2025

Our Bridges Are Old, Our Grid Is on the Fritz, and Soon America Will Be Obsolete

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.

June 17, 2025

LA City Council Moves to Evaluate Parking Requirements

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.

June 5, 2025

Dan Rosenfeld Recalls 1984 as LA Prepares for 2028

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.

June 5, 2025

Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’s Edge: An Excerpt

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

May 6, 2025

CA Council of Infill Builders’ Mott Smith on the Imperative Need for Measure ULA Reform

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,

May 5, 2025

CA Assembly Appropriations Chair Buffy Wicks’ Housing Legislative Update

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.

May 5, 2025

LA City Tourism Department Executive Director Doane Liu on Convention Center Expansion & Investments in Tourism Infrastructure

TPR Interviews Doane Liu for an update on the LA Convention Center Expansion and vision for tourism & leisure industries in the City of Los Angeles amidst budgetary constraints and international travel uncertainties.

April 30, 2025

UCLA/Luskin School 2025 Los Angeles County Quality of Life Index

TPR shares the results revealing a population that continues to hold deep-seated frustration with the high cost of living and confronts new challenges presented by the January 2025 wildfires, the newest round of threats to immigrants, and homelessness.

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