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and jurisdictional fragmentation to the politics of vilifying developers, Jessica Lall and Carl Muhlstein unpack how outdated processes and a culture of distrust undermine the city’s capacity to address housing affordability, revitalize Downtown, and deliver on its Olympic ambitions.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

June 27, 2025

Rick Cole Retires as LA’s Chief Deputy City Controller, Urges Bold Reform to Fix a Broken System

TPR shares Rick Cole's remarks to LA City Council on the occasion of his retirement as Chief Deputy City Controller.

June 25, 2025

LA Conservancy’s Adrian Scott Fine on Preserving Historic Assets & Cultural Memory After the LA Wildfires

Given the scale of destruction wrought by the Eaton & Palisades fires, TPR interviewed Adrian Scott Fine, President & CEO of the Los Angeles Conservancy, to discuss the organization’s role in documenting the historic assets lost in the fires and efforts to preserve cultural heritage as the region endeavors to rebuild.

June 25, 2025

Lighting the Way: Miguel Sangalang on Maintaining & Modernizing the City of LA’s Lighting Infrastructure

TPR interviewed Miguel Sangalang, Executive Director of the Bureau of Street Lighting of the City of LA, on the operational scope and evolving challenges of maintaining LA’s 250,000-light system across a 500-square-mile metropolis.

June 25, 2025

Insurance, Infill, & Infrastructure: Asm. John Harabedian’s Agenda for a Resilient Rebuild

California Assemblymember John Harabedian spoke with TPR about his legislative agenda, including his efforts to prevent predatory real estate speculation in the disaster’s aftermath and strengthen consumer protections against unscrupulous insurance practices.

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