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July 10, 2024

Opinion: Is the Los Angeles Times a Newspaper or a Tabloid?

OP/ED – As a young child born in Los Angeles, I remember reading the Los Angeles Times to my father at

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July 10, 2024

Opinion: Blaming the Victims and First Responders for Homelessness

If you understand that housing is a basic human right, then our starting point is simple: Everyone must be housed.

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: The plight of California’s small landlord is real

Two opposing things can be true at the same time. In California, there is no question that the rent is

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: Why Is the AIDS Healthcare Foundation Leading the Rent Control Movement?

If you are seeing ads for a rent control ballot initiative in California these days, they will say that they

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: The Olympics Are Coming, the Olympics Are Coming. Where’s the Housing? | Opinion

The Olympics will be here just four years from now, and preparations are well underway. The perennial questions are: “Will we be

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: It’s a Myth that Top Economists Don’t Support Rent Control

Once again, the National Multifamily Housing Council is pushing outdated, obsolete ideas to protect the obscene profits of the country’s largest corporate landlords.

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: Profound corruption lies at the heart of LA homelessness

We ask ourselves the confounding question: Why is Los Angeles the homeless capital of the world? The answer: corruption. Los

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: Stop Blaming Nonprofits for the Failures of Los Angeles and LA County

Californians pay a boatload of taxes to both the city and county of Los Angeles. Annual tax revenue amounts to billions

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: California Leads the Nation in Creating Down-and-Out People

California produces more poor and homeless people than any other state. How can a place with such astounding wealth have

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July 9, 2024

Opinion: Winning Rent Control Against All Odds

Statewide rent control initiatives were voted down in California by almost 20 points. Why should we believe that we can

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