Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

Hey those are my constituents! :/

Here's the executive order Newsom talks about. This seems to make it even easier to build in areas that keep getting destroyed by climate disasters and doesn't address the serious reckoning that LA will need to have about density, affordability, and managed retreat

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/12/g...

I don’t know of a single city that has pushed as far as this.

If you’re talking about HCHC project the process is very different because it was on city owned land. At the same meeting I put forward and council approved a purely administrative approval process for all new housing projects in Santa Monica.

You need someone with more political skill and more ability to raise money, I think!

I think people basically don’t like to get yelled at and the best and most steadfast yellers in LA politics are NIMBYs (right and left)

I also think public safety issues/ stances are a stronger political identifier for people right now.

Seems like a pro housing pro bike candidate with sufficient credibility on safety would clean up, but there is zero political infra/ donor class/ institutions in LA with those crossover views.

I think the basic truth is that LA civic engagement/ infra among the normie majority who hold reasonable pro-growth views remains weak.

When I worked on Nithya’s race we didn’t have any of those traditional institutions, but there was a strong “progressive” political/donor/nonprofit infra that put us over the top.