Business Insider did a study in 2015 ranking the top 25 countries where women hold the most power. America didn’t make the list. According to Apolitical Group, of the top 10 countries around the world, where women are represented in the top echelons of power, four are from Latin America…
Notices on the door are scary. The language seems as if everything is already done and you’ve suddenly been evicted. That’s why it’s important to know that notices are processes, not endings.First and foremost, if you receive any of the following documents, respond immediately: ● 3-Day Notice to Perform or…
Last issue, we described how apartment units under L.A.’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO)—generally those in multifamily buildings built before 1978—have restrictions on raising rents.The other principal job of the RSO is setting terms for when a tenant can be evicted, aka “just-cause evictions”. The city allows fourteen…
Originally posted on CityWatchLa.com Sept. 25, '17Now that we’ve had two years of announcements, promises, photo-ops, budget proposals, ballot measures and votes all aimed at improving the plight of people with homelessness, have you noticed less homeless people on the streets? Or does it look like more of the…
For the first time in a generation, Los Angeles residents get to dream about their vision for the city over the next five years, in a highly public participation called a General Plan Update.Los Angeles is many years, and in some cases decades, behind the key U.S. Western Cities…
An initiative to change the city's laws governing changes to the general plan and development projects, Measure S, will be on the ballot for voters in Los Angeles, California, on March 7, 2017. This initiative is known as the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative.A "yes" vote is a vote in support…
EditorialDevelopment in Los Angeles has been mushrooming like a forest floor in rainy season. Spurred by the need for housing and donations,City Council can't rubber stamp requests from developers to overlook certain requirements guiding responsible growth (called Spot Zoning or Zone Change), fast enough. Instead they have allowed many developers…
Developer Michael Hakim shelled out more than $1.2 million in campaign contributions, lobbyist fees and payments to City Hall trust funds until finally his controversial Koreatown skyscraper was approved by the LA City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti. It didn’t matter that nearby residents and even LA’s City Planning Commission…
THE BROWN ACT IS WRONG -- According to the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. House of Representatives has met behind closed doors four times during the past 186 years—in 1979, 1980, 1983, and 2008. That’s about one closed session per half-century. By contrast, the LA City Council and…
The common bus bench is one of several items that urban planners, architects, and others call “street furniture.” Included in the category are decorative planters, metal tree supports, garbage receptacles, and even fire hydrants & some street lighting. The bus bench has always served one purpose and that is…
Established in August of 2008 by writer, artist Dianne V. Lawrence, The Neighborhood News covers the events, people, history, politics and historic architecture of communities throughout the Mid-City and West Adams area in Los Angeles Council District 10.
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