Features on Housing & Development

2010-09-01 Donuts at 2 A.M.: August, the Mother of All Months by Gary Phillips
Did anyone really believe this Don Draper crossed with Lonesome Rhodes would succeed in hijacking the legacy of the momentous March on Washington?
2010-08-18 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Big Bite by Gary Phillips
In South L.A., according to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Advocacy, one third of teenagers there are obese, nearly twice the county average.
2010-08-12 MasterPlanning!: Including Affordable Housing Somehow by Tony Chavira
Across the wider spectrum of society, lots of homebuilding means lots of affordable housing. That is, as long as stuff’s always being built.
2010-08-05 The Urban Habitat: From the Frontlines of Affordable Housing by Veronica Jauriqui
For the first time in its 34-year history, the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity joined the ranks of the most prolific homebuilders in the United States.
2010-08-04 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Shape of Things to Come by Gary Phillips
Just when I’m ready to ignore one more overdue notice from the L.A. Times, son-of-a-gun if they don’t prove there yet remains a reason for the daily newspaper.
2010-07-29 MasterPlanning!: Your Local Police Officer’s Job by Tony Chavira
The logic is still prevalent today: police cars can roam freely under the assumption that police can take down more hard crime with a faster overall rate of success.
2010-07-15 MasterPlanning!: Why Don’t We Ever Have Enough Affordable Housing? by Tony Chavira
Visit the website for just about any municipality in the United States, any large developer’s site, or the vast majority of urban advocacy sites, and you’ll find …
2010-07-13 Oklahoma Dreaming: Geodes, Cats, and Neighbors by Donna Schoenkopf
The next morning French toast and orange juice and coffee and making plans for the day. I had already told them I had a Democratic Club meeting at ten …
2010-07-09 California Dreaming: I’m Sorry by Rebecca Schoenkopf
But back to Hud! It was black-and-white and boringcakes, except for the confounding, even crazymaking, resemblance of Hud to one Mr. George W. Bush.
2010-07-08 MasterPlanning!: Pushing My Luck Back to Los Angeles by Tony Chavira
It bothers me sometimes when people ask “Where are you from?” and when I reply “Los Angeles,” they look back at me in shock. “No one is from Los Angeles.”
2010-07-06 Oklahoma Dreaming: A Very, Very, Very Fine House by Donna Schoenkopf
I wrote lists and rewrote them over and over. I added, subtracted, multiplied and divided until numbers swam in front of my eyes, not meaning much of anything anymore.
2010-07-05 Lost in OC: In This House That I Call Home by Jim Washburn
On this date in history, one has to presume, our Founding Fathers were drunk off their brandy-packed asses, celebrating the lovely document they had just brought forth.
2010-07-01 MasterPlanning!: Sci-Fi Density and Social Justice by Tony Chavira
What I’m interested in here is vision: what kind of utopian future will we choose for ourselves, and what creative ideas and concepts will shape this amazing future in your city?
2010-06-28 Lost in OC: My Kind of Town: Costa Mesa by Jim Washburn
The whole world seems out of whack lately—floods, oil plumes, earthquakes—and I think it started when the Arches had to move from its original PCH location.
2010-06-24 MasterPlanning!: Downtown. Miami. by Tony Chavira
The city of Miami is the land the drug money laundering cartel built. Since Florida doesn’t necessarily require proof of income to buy property, cash would be spilt …
2010-06-15 Oklahoma Dreaming: The Census Taker by Donna Schoenkopf
It’s white, rectangular and has a scrubby yard around it, so when my very own census taker walked through my door she gasped, like most people.
2010-06-14 Lost in OC: The Inconvenient American by Jim Washburn
I wrote a letter to the L.A. Times. I do that two or three times a year, and just as often the Times deigns not to print them.
2010-06-10 MasterPlanning!: Paradigm City by Tony Chavira
What’s the difference between a hamlet, a village and a town? Or A town and a city? A city and a mega-city? A mega-city and a county?
2010-06-03 MasterPlanning!: King Hospital and the Barely Visible Black Community of Los Angeles by Tony Chavira
For over 70 years, a disproportionate amount of federal, state and local money would go to rehabilitating or revitalizing wealthy white communities.
2010-06-01 Oklahoma Dreaming: Three Years by Donna Schoenkopf
Three years. Been here three years. Has this house, this land, been affordable? Emotionally? Monetarily? Environmentally? Politically? Artistically? Physically?
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