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Rolling out the Red Carpet for Real Estate Investors:

Rolling out the Red Carpet for Real Estate Investors:

Q & A on CA State Senate Bills 9 & 10 By Dick Platkin, CityWatchLA, August 12, 2021 PLANNING WATCH – By August 16, 2021, the California State Legislature may have approved two pieces of contentious legislation, Senate Bills 9 and 10. Despite deceptive claims from their supporters and sponsors, State Senators Scott Wiener and Tony Atkins, the legislation would roll out the red carpet for real estate investors.  Unless the State’s legislators are heavily lobbied during the next few…

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The Latest False Claims to Sanitize Speculative Real Estate Investments

The Latest False Claims to Sanitize Speculative Real Estate Investments

Dick Platkin, CityWatchLA, July 22, 2021 PLANNING WATCH-If you went to a doctor with a serious illness, and he or she recommended an unapproved miracle cure, you might be intrigued, but once out the door, would look for another physician. Yet, this is the approach of the Los Angeles Times and the Department of City Planning for the worsening housing crisis.  They still trot out the same old evidence-free up-zoning “solutions.”  This repetition of recycled proposals was on full display…

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