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City Of Los Angeles To Accept Applications For Rent Relief Program

July 14, 2020 3:13 amJuly 13, 2020 8:17 pm

On Monday, Los Angeles began accepting applications from residents for $100 million in rent relief from a CARES Act program. Passed last month by the LA City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors as the Emergency Rental Assistance...

L.A. Teachers Union: Schools Can’t Reopen Unless Charter Schools Shut Down, Police Defunded

July 13, 2020 2:10 amJuly 14, 2020 8:22 am

In what appears to be a labor union power play, the United Teachers Los Angeles union announced Friday that Los Angeles Unified District schools effectively cannot reopen unless certain conditions are met: privately operated publicly funded charter schools are shut...

LA City Council, LA County Board of Supervisors Approve $130 Million in Rent Relief

June 24, 2020 5:17 pmJune 25, 2020 3:05 pm

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council and Los Angeles County Supervisors voted for sweeping approval of a combined $130 million in rent relief and an extension of eviction moratoriums through the end of July. The LA City Council voted...

The Regulatory Taking of Venice Beach

May 1, 2020 2:12 amApril 30, 2020 4:47 pm

With great crisis comes great opportunity… By Edward Ring and Soledad Ursua On April 18 Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin held a telephone town hall to discuss public health issues. His district includes Venice Beach, which has a high...

How the Homeless Industrial Complex Plans to Destroy Venice Beach

April 22, 2020 2:05 amApril 21, 2020 8:33 pm

You can’t ensure the rule of law when you permit people to wander the streets stoned out of their minds, or sprawled across park benches in a heroin stupor, or drinking and carousing all night long, urinating and defecating everywhere....

California’s State Budget Reserves Not Enough to Fill Budget Gaps Even in Moderate Downturns

April 20, 2020 11:15 amApril 20, 2020 11:15 am

With California in lockdown since mid-March, most businesses have ground to a halt, which also ground sales tax revenue to a halt. The Public Policy Institute of California just published an article showing that California’s budget reserves aren’t adequate for...

Some Decisions Don’t Add Up in California’s COVID-19 Spending and Policy

April 15, 2020 2:07 amApril 14, 2020 8:03 pm

While California residents have been under strict stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus crisis, the homeless vagrants living on city streets have been exempted from the city, county and statewide orders. Living in unsheltered filth, together with diseases many already have,...