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July 10, 2025

LADBS GM Osama Younan on Palisades Fire Rebuild: Speed, Safety & Self-Certification

TPR spoke with City of Los Angeles’ Department of Building & Safety General Manager Osama Younan about the department’s critical role in both emergency response and the long-term rebuilding efforts in the Palisades.

July 10, 2025

LAEDC Manufacturing Matters Panel: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

At the June LAEDC Board of Governor’s meeting, leaders from across LA’s manufacturing landscape gathered to assess the state of manufacturing in Los Angeles and offer a grounded view of the opportunities and barriers to re-shoring production and growing local industry and small businesses.

July 10, 2025

Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Resilience & Fire Safe Recovery Recommendations

The Commission's primary recommendations are to establish a Resilient Rebuilding Authority with financing powers and tools to accelerate the pace and reduce the cost of rebuilding and to create Fire Control District with permanent funding for regional fire mitigation activities

July 10, 2025

Can 'Quality' Solve L.A.’s Housing Crisis?

Utilizing Vienna as a case study, the authors describe how a broader paradigm shift towards quality, human-sale development can make housing more affordable while delivering on housing needs and neighborhood desires.

July 10, 2025

Eviction as Extraction: How REITs Target Black Tenants in Post-Pandemic Los Angeles

Using novel data collected from the Tenant Power Toolkit—this study traces the pattern of practice and often automated process of eviction as a tool of racial banishment embedded in contemporary real estate finance in LA.

July 10, 2025

Letter From Los Angeles: The Unsettling Silence of Construction Sites

In the aftermath of the LA Wildfires, Sam Hall Kaplan reports on the sudden halt in rebuilding activity across fire-impacted communities like Malibu and links the disruption to escalating immigration enforcement actions

July 3, 2025

Vacancy to Vitality: A Path Forward for Downtown Los Angeles?

From serial CEQA litigation and jurisdictional fragmentation to the politics of vilifying developers, Jessica Lall and Carl Muhlstein unpack how outdated processes and a culture of distrust undermine the city’s capacity to address housing affordability, revitalize Downtown, and deliver on its Olympic ambitions.

July 3, 2025

The 'Abundance Agenda' & Alternative Dispute Resolution

This op-ed by Gideon Kracov and Darrell Steinberg calls on policymakers, practitioners, and project proponents to embrace alternative dispute resolution more intentionally as California takes on pressing housing, climate, and infrastructure challenges.

July 3, 2025

LA Alliance for Human Rights v City of LA: Judge Carter Rules Against Receivership

TPR excerpts U.S. District Judge David O. Carter's June 25 decision declining to place the city of Los Angeles’s nearly $1 billion homelessness programs into receivership.

July 3, 2025

Next 10: Understanding California’s 2025-2026 Budget

TPR shares this summary compiled by Next 10 of California’s 2025-2026 budget including some details of the spending cuts to address projected deficits included in the $321 Billion spending plan signed by Governor Newsom this week.

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