Density

July 11, 2023

Insider Planning: NoHo Nightmare Reveals Pitfalls of LA's Housing Policies & Obsession with Density at Any Cost

The Planning Report is interested in—and shares this first-hand account—uncovering the failures in policy and governance that enabled and incentivized these crimes in its pursuit of housing density at any cost.

March 7, 2022

Former LA City Planning Director Con Howe Opines on Today’s Housing & Planning Successes

As the Los Angeles City Planning Department continues its process of updating and releasing community and citywide zoning codes, Con Howe, former Los Angeles Director of City Planning from 1992 to 2005, provides TPR with an optimistic and rather bullish take on the current state of land use and urban planning.

May 25, 2021

Low Rise Housing Ideas: A Los Angeles Design Competition

TPR shares this overview of the City of LA's Low-Rise housing design competition, and highlights the prize winners' innovative models of sustainable residential architecture.

March 24, 2021

Cambridge, Mass’ Adopts Citywide Affordable Housing Overlay—A National Model

Alanna Mallon elaborates on the significance and necessity for the local land use regulation to significantly increase supply of permanent affordable housing in one of the nation’s most expensive and inflated housing markets.

February 26, 2021

We're Solving the Wrong Crisis: Finding & Fixing the Real Housing Crisis in California 

Embarcadero Institute president and co-founder, Gab Layton reminds readers that when incentives are created for market-rate housing, Big Tech and real estate interest groups benefit at the expense of addressing the 'real' crisis: California has far too little affordable housing for the minimum wage-earners who live in metro areas.

February 18, 2021

Patrick Condon: Density, Affordability, & The 'Hungry Dogs' of Land Price Speculation

Patrick Condon explicitly articulates how increasing density without affordability only further inflates urban land values to the benefit of speculators, resulting in nearly all of the value of individual labor and creative enterprise of entrepreneurs in regional economies to be absorbed as land wealth.

March 26, 2020

Santa Monica's Alisa Orduña: Pandemic Compounds Urban Homelessness Challenges

Alisa Orduña's insight on her city’s response to the pandemic and how COVID-19's disrupting they way cities and policymakers address homelessness and will approach public health, safety, and wellbeing going forward.

March 17, 2020

Economic Argument for Historic Preservation: Older Housing is Affordable Housing

Donovan Rypkema and Adrian Scott Fine highlight myth-busting findings on the impacts of HPOZs on affordability, density, diversity, and economic resilience of neighborhoods across Los Angeles.

February 24, 2020

Asm. Bloom on State Solutions for Streamlining Housing & Achieving Affordability

Asm. Richard Bloom and Tara Barauskas dive into the barriers to building affordable housing and whether recent legislation streamlining local planning, zoning, and permitting processes

December 5, 2019

Architects Brooks + Scarpa on Livable, Affordable, & Scalable DENSE-CITY

Architects Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa discuss their exhibit and the challenges to planning and building affordable, livable density in Southern California today.

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