Giving a homeless person with a drug or mental health problem a home won’t solve their drug or mental health problems but it sure does make them *not homeless.* Further, it’s really hard to get off drugs and stay in therapy when you don’t have a safe place to sleep at night.

Weird... Check out these lists showing where Class C apartment rents are falling most. (Class C = cheapest market-rate units.) In 16 of the 17 MSAs where Class C rents FALLING >6%, new apartment SUPPLY exceeds the U.S. average. And ... guess where Class C rents growing MOST?

My Halloween costume this year

BUILT THE STAGE HE’S STANDING ON!!!!!! Damn that’s the truth…Gotta love Charles

LA suffering from a plague of theft of copper wiring, knocking out our street lights and requiring very expensive repairs. As usual, because many of the members have a defective understanding of human nature, our city council is exploring every possible solution (solar, alarms,

Sincere congrats to CA YIMBYs on getting SB79 passed. Now, if you want a material number of those buildings actually built: Go work with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to pass their ballot initiative rolling back ULA & blocking future, similar, idiotic transfer taxes.

WATCH — @GovPritzker on Kimmel: “I’m reporting from war-torn Chicago… it’s mayhem & chaos… the Brewers are attacking the Cubs… people are being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup…” 😆

Unfortunately, it’s official: Governor Newsom has created more havoc for landlords by signing Assembly Bill 628. This law requires landlords to provide a working refrigerator and stove in residential rental units for the unit to be considered habitable. It applies to new,

This.

This farmer is asked about the possible Trump bailout for US farmers. His response: "The president of the United States is going to take my money, and give it back to me, and call it a bailout?  That's just comical."

@RickCarusoLA We have pulled back massively in Los Angeles. This article is accurate, but not close to comprehensive. A few other issues driving the free fall in new construction: - population shrinking does not inspire confidence (and its shrinking because people are voting with their feet)

Leaving the Los Angeles city Council meeting on lowering allowable rent increases. The decision is delayed until the next meeting, October 15th. From the turnout, the room things do not look great for LA Landlord’s seeing more than 3% rent increase again.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic –

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Did you know that Crest Toothpaste, Folgers Coffee, Bounce Fabric Softener and Safeguard Soap were all created by a black man? Dr. Herbert Smitherman, with a Ph.D in physical organic chemistry, was a pioneering executive and professional chemist.

Fixing a broken eviction system in California will do more to build housing than any zoning reform

These are the companies with the most H1B Visa employees.

Half of American right now . Thanks 47

Per Fox News:

Plan Commission approved PO 55 LLC's proposed office-to-residential conversion at the Pittsfield Building, located at 55 E. Washington St. in the Loop. The $160 million project would repurpose the landmark building's vacant office space to create 214 mixed-income residences.