#BREAKING: Scuffle breaks out during homeless encampment sweep in the San Fernando Valley. https://t.co/Ac3bfx4cX1 pic.twitter.com/oDzDWdsKrf
— KTLA (@KTLA) July 31, 2025
BREAKING TV-11 Encampment sweep in #VanNuys @Stu_Mundel reporting in #SkyFox pic.twitter.com/u6LCid2FDp
— DJTru (@DJTru) July 31, 2025
Duplexes!
After outcry, L.A. restricts duplexes in Pacific Palisades - Los Angeles Times https://t.co/v13d0rsaIn
— Hector Becerra (@hbecerraLATimes) July 31, 2025
The area was already destroyed!:
Palisades residents have raised alarms about SB 9, worrying that their historically single-family-home community would be transformed by the additional density allowed under the law and become more dangerous in the event of future fires
these people are despicable and infuriating and have abjectly failed at what is by far their most important responsibility because they are simply not morally or politically serious in any way https://t.co/2QpnHgtRUw
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) July 31, 2025
the procedure is precisely to see what people are using to actually rebuild, and then have a panic about it and close that loophole
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) July 31, 2025
Also today:
New newsletter: Antitrust critics of Abundance claim homebuilding oligopolies are holding back supply and driving up prices.
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) July 31, 2025
I did something simple. I called up their sources.
Everyone I spoke to told me the same thing: Their claims are bullshit.https://t.co/EGHno84TBl
The case in Abundance—that zoning and other rules have constrained housing development for decades— is based on an enormous amount of empirical research.
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) July 31, 2025
The antitrust folks' argument is built on assertions in legal journals that reference assertions in blog posts that reference… pic.twitter.com/23KClMXIP6