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and jurisdictional fragmentation to the politics of vilifying developers, Jessica Lall and Carl Muhlstein unpack how outdated processes and a culture of distrust undermine the city’s capacity to address housing affordability, revitalize Downtown, and deliver on its Olympic ambitions.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

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

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