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Andy Freeland @andyfreeland.net · 2d

Mansion tax applying to apartments: ✅
Mansion tax applying to mansions: ❌

Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 2d

Mayor Karen Bass is asking LA's city council to pass an ordinance that would exempt Pacific Palisades transactions from ULA, the city's transfer tax.

Of note: "The letter follows a meeting with Rick Caruso, founder of Steadfast LA, who proposed ideas to help address this issue"

Mayor Bass Takes Action to Provide New Relief to Palisades Fire Survivors, Accelerate Community Recovery

Calls on City Council to Provide Fire-Affected Properties with Time-Limited Exemption, Announces Mayoral Executive Directive

LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass announced actions to provide new relief to Palisades Fire survivors and accelerate community recovery. She called on the City Council to adopt an ordinance that would assist in the establishment of a one-time exemption to Measure ULA for Palisade homeowners and announced that once the ordinance is adopted she would issue an executive directive to direct the Office of Finance to create the rule providing this exemption. The letter follows a meeting with Rick Caruso, founder of Steadfast LA, who proposed ideas to help address this issue. The Mayor’s plan to create a time limited exemption from the Measure ULA property transfer tax will help homeowners who need to or wish to move from the fire impacted area and speed up sales of these properties and spur rebuilding and rehabilitation of the Palisades.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 9h

Ever the fashion icon, she was wearing black leather gloves with the fingers cut off.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 9h

As a 19 year-old intern for the LA Conservancy, I was tasked with giving Diane Keaton a personal tour of a Lautner house in Malibu Colony.

I was a nervous wreck at first, but she was just as sweet as can be with such a warm and nonjudgmental presence that put me at ease. RIP 💜💜

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

But not entirely! Every BRT stop in Glendale is open season for dense housing.

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Monica de la Cruz @monicadlc.bsky.social · 1d

SB 79 was signed into law and god shined a brilliant rainbow over the construction of an eight story apartment building

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that’s exactly it

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Someone do a wellness check on Councilmember Gharpetian

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. We talked about zoning and land use law a lot at my planning school.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

wtaf reading this gave me anxiety for these people.

Screen from the article that reads, "Upward of 40 percent of Americans now pay for basic items like groceries and health care using borrowed money — and this excludes credit cards. A third of younger Americans hold their savings on nonbank tech platforms like Venmo, and industries from retail to transportation derive anywhere from 14 percent to half of their profits from partnerships with credit card companies."

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Culver City took an official support position on SB 79!

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Crying in the courtyard of my transit-oriented apartment building.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Immensely grateful for the privilege of working with @cafedujord.bsky.social and the rest of the SB 79 team, all of whom relentlessly believed that better things are possible beyond the status quo. Sickos for hope.

Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 1d

I've spent the last 8 months of my life working to pass #SB79. It will be transformative for housing in California, and is one of the best things I'll probably ever get to do.

As of this morning, it's officially law; now it's time to drink!

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

And also claiming that he *is* the rich. A mansion boy! (in a rent stabilized apartment in Astoria)

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Olivia Gonzalez Killingsworth 🌹🦾 🐜 @olivekilworth.bsky.social · 1d

That's my mayor!

Still from video in which Zohran says "For us, it's that we need to build more housing"

Still from video "and we also need to make sure that for the public sector"

Still from video: "that housing that we're building is immediately affordable."

Still from video: "It's something they can see themselves in."

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Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social · 1d

“You can’t tell me a parking space at the corner of a street is worth a life.”

Advocates are in front of the district office of @galeabrewer.bsky.social this morning to ask her why she changed her mind and no longer supports universal daylighting in NYC.

A group of people gathered on the sidewalk in front Council Member Gale Brewer’s district office.

A sign held up in front of Gale Brewer’s office that reads “You supported safety, Gale. Don’t turn your back now.”

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

So many vacancy rate understanders.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Rich people exist whether or not new homes are built, and they outbid everyone else for the existing housing stock. It's musical chairs--if only 1 in every 100 apartments is available to rent as is currently the case at 1.4% vacancy, then guess who has the best chance of getting that 1 unit.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, are you saying that the vacancy rate should be *even less*???? 'Do you not understand that most of those 52k units are just in-between tenants? Any less vacancy and people will be literally unable to move to, or within, the city.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t hard for me to believe for certain family-heavy parts of Brooklyn, and Montreal has even more of a cargo bike culture than here. I definitely wouldn’t extrapolate that observation to every city, but I don’t doubt it’s true for the neighborhood he’s describing.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

I thought all of the “Black Rock is buying all of the homes” comments would be from 20-somethings but it’s all boomers. Did MSNBC do a segment on this or something?

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

The rise of “income” properties is the result of housing scarcity inflating the value of homes as an investment. Building more homes would make such investments less appealing.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 1d

The vacancy rate in New York City is 1.4%—the lowest it has ever been. There are not enough homes.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 3d

It's a big change from 20-25 years ago. My mom was a social worker in Clermont and Adams counties in the 90s so these home prices would blow her mind.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 3d

An entire subdivision of $430k homes was just built in Mt.Orab. I don't think this is Appalachia anymore. www.redfin.com/OH/Mt-Orab/1...

108 Brookshire Way, Mt Orab, OH 45154 - 3 beds/2 baths

(Cincy MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 2 baths ∙ 2150 sq. ft. ∙ 108 Brookshire Way, Mt Orab, OH 45154 ∙ $430,000 ∙ MLS# 1857091 ∙ Why wait to build when this one is ready now? Welcome home to this stunning 3...

www.redfin.com

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 3d

That used to be the case with Clermont County re:275 but there are brand-new suburban sprawl subdivisions popping up all the way out to Mt.Orab and incomes are on par with the rest of the Cincinnati MSA suburbs.

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