Jon Lovett’s face when LA City Councilmember Imelda Padilla said she forced an affordable housing project to go down from six stories to three stories and add in EV charging spaces
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I'm still stuck on this: when she says "big ugly cement box" does she mean ... stucco?
aug 28, 2025, 2:45 am • 38 0 • view
she means an apartment building.
aug 28, 2025, 4:11 am • 17 0 • view
I mean modern exterior stucco does use cement, doesn't it?
aug 28, 2025, 3:21 pm • 10 0 • view
yes, we even call it cementitious plaster when we're being technical
aug 28, 2025, 3:23 pm • 15 0 • view
I think a "cement building" is a pretty good name to call stuff like this
aug 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 21 0 • view
fair enough! christ that's bad
aug 28, 2025, 3:42 pm • 9 0 • view
good spot for a large mural.
aug 28, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Come on y'all don't besmirch cement like this
aug 28, 2025, 3:44 pm • 15 0 • view
Preach it Real Brutalist! 😄
aug 28, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah the irony of what she’s saying is that I think a lot of what she hates goes back to light wood frame construction
aug 28, 2025, 3:46 pm • 26 0 • view
Yep, the language sounds like it's going after concrete but those designs are all timber frame. We need to return to *real* concrete construction, burtalism.
aug 28, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Like, why is so much of the facade blank? Two remote stairs because a wood stair burned in a NYC tenement in 1860. What’s up with all those risers? Sprinklers and standpipes because the structure is made of twigs. Why are the windows perfectly flat with the facade? Uhhh I can’t remember how I…
aug 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 24 0 • view
…managed to blame this one on light wood frame, but I think way back when I found a way!
aug 28, 2025, 3:48 pm • 14 0 • view
white vinyl being marginally cheaper than dark bronze is a big tell on these guys
aug 28, 2025, 3:49 pm • 3 0 • view
it's because it's far cheaper to use flanged windows over the sheathing to keep out water even though it's a million light years better to put it in middle of wall.
aug 28, 2025, 3:50 pm • 20 0 • view
Wish there was someone with a full time job who had authority to investigate and fix these the bad laws...
aug 28, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Ando would never
aug 28, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
The raised eyebrow of drainage
aug 28, 2025, 3:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Hardie is about 3x as much as stucco iirc
aug 29, 2025, 12:11 am • 4 0 • view
Not to mention the design shown is actually good
aug 29, 2025, 12:16 am • 5 0 • view
Exactly. Saying "cement building" is just appealing to assumptions about aesthetics, probably rooted in class among other things. But it says nothing about the actual quality of the building
aug 29, 2025, 12:20 am • 8 0 • view
Charmed. Where do I check in for my body cavity inspection?
aug 28, 2025, 5:07 pm • 4 0 • view
I thought boring boxes were good actually ;) Also "Gatsby" is perfect
aug 28, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
Where are the other windows? Is this a secure facility?
aug 28, 2025, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Just not with any civil engineers in earshot
aug 28, 2025, 3:56 pm • 2 0 • view
hahahaha
aug 27, 2025, 9:13 pm • 9 0 • view
“Imelda” namesake vibes are strong
aug 29, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
Got a relative in urban planning and her main concern is tall buildings in TODs next to runways at LAX or Burbank airport which would alter plane approach/depart paths.
aug 28, 2025, 6:41 am • 1 0 • view
I'm starting to see why my relative refused to comment on this herself. This was her only concern about the whole thing, the areas designated TODs next to airports, all other TODs she had no real objections as long it addresses the issues y'all were concerned with.
aug 28, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
In the byzantine system here in CA, FAA falls under transportation, and they generally don't interact with urban planners. Funny SJ was mentioned, SJ wanted int'l airport, but size of Google bldgs limited planes to shorter flights due to higher takeoff paths, less gas weight so no overseas flights.
aug 28, 2025, 7:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Is she not aware that the FAA has to sign off on tall buildings near airports?
aug 28, 2025, 6:50 am • 3 0 • view
It is not up to the developers to contact FAA, the Airport Land Use Commission does that, byt SB 79, as written atm, bypasses ALUC.
aug 28, 2025, 7:04 am • 0 0 • view
No it doesn’t
aug 28, 2025, 1:21 pm • 4 0 • view
That's the same idiotic argument a nimby was using about San Jose. Word for word. Do California nimbys have a newsletter with made up talking points to share?
aug 28, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Where can I watch it? What’s it called?
aug 27, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
aug 27, 2025, 9:54 pm • 13 0 • view
Wow just utterly shocking. Wow.
aug 28, 2025, 4:44 am • 0 0 • view
Thanks!
aug 27, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Adding EV charging… ok, fine… likely cutting the number of units in half? Fucking insane
aug 28, 2025, 1:04 am • 21 0 • view
He's got a very expressive face. I loved him in Rat Race.
aug 28, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
She said she forced an affordable housing project to go from six to three stories and add parking *as a response to a question about how she was dealing with making California housing more affordable*!
aug 27, 2025, 10:02 pm • 253 4 • view
But look at all the outlets!
aug 28, 2025, 1:13 am • 24 0 • view
If you want to spend you life fucking other people, pick a career as a dominatrix, not public service.
aug 28, 2025, 12:13 am • 11 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 0 • view
If we limited car ownership to those with off street parking instead of requiring off street parking for all apartments, this NIMBY issue could fade away. Japan does this.
aug 28, 2025, 6:48 pm • 3 0 • view
there are some people in this world *cough*miserable centrists*cough* whose sole purpose is to make sure nobody gets everything they want. if world peace was on the table, they'd find a way undermine it just for the sake of knocking it down a peg.
aug 28, 2025, 3:13 am • 12 0 • view
Except wealthy people who are polite about it to them personally. Those people get 100% of what they want all the time.
aug 28, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
@nerd4cities.bsky.social would love to hear you rant about this
aug 30, 2025, 12:24 am • 1 0 • view
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zot2...
aug 29, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 10:27 pm • 59 0 • view
Her argument that the bill would strip away her power over housing is not as convincing as she thinks it is. The longer I listen to her, the more I want her stripped of all power or influence in housing or any other aspect of people's lives.
aug 28, 2025, 6:39 pm • 18 0 • view
holy shit she was so proud of herself for working outside her jurisdiction to ruin that project.
aug 28, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Padilla did some absolute fuck shit
aug 28, 2025, 5:17 am • 4 0 • view
sir, i just bought this monitor, please don't make me punch it.
aug 28, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Unreal.
aug 28, 2025, 6:14 am • 1 0 • view
God forbid we allow something like this next to a transit station in the fucking second biggest city in the country.
aug 28, 2025, 7:08 pm • 22 0 • view
omg, y'all. The rents are gonna be SO CHEAP in this 7 story Type 1 building, because I've been informed by a reliable source that everyone hates tall concrete structures!🤡
aug 28, 2025, 6:00 pm • 3 0 • view
I recently toured a $2M 50 yo condo with shared laundry. The CM demanding in-unit laundry demonstrates just how far she is from being remotely capable of meeting the moment.
aug 28, 2025, 5:14 pm • 2 0 • view
And somehow not even the worst of LA councilmembers...she voted yes on single stair reform and Traci Park didn't!
aug 28, 2025, 3:34 am • 4 0 • view
California, get organized! go.bsky.app/zDHeLy
aug 28, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Some voters supported some voters oppose it! Stop whining!!!! This is why I can’t stand, listening to the liberal pundit class anymore.
aug 30, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Her argument in this video is more or less “I like the power I personally have in LA’s politicized land use process and don’t want to give it up.”
aug 27, 2025, 10:14 pm • 175 1 • view
Towards the end she basically says “what am I gonna do with my day if I can’t control land use in my district?”
aug 28, 2025, 12:29 am • 79 2 • view
Some people actually need a drug addiction
aug 29, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah she seemed very offended about that and my god if land use is her primary job as a council member then LA is more corrupt than I even imagined…
aug 28, 2025, 4:46 am • 5 0 • view
If you live in California and believe in building more housing, please call your assembly member and ask them to vote "yes" on SB 79! I did it on Friday and it takes < 1 minute Enter your address here to get their phone number: streetsforall.org/sb79
aug 28, 2025, 2:59 am • 96 20 • view
Local control (the locals demand more housing)!
aug 28, 2025, 3:02 am • 14 0 • view
Done!
aug 29, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t think I am changing my legislators mind on this issue
aug 28, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
My assembly member put out a public statement opposing the bill. I still called him. What's the worst that could happen?
aug 28, 2025, 4:03 pm • 8 0 • view
Was making a little joke. Haney and weiner are pretty solid in their positions
aug 28, 2025, 4:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh. Yea. lol
aug 28, 2025, 4:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Called Jessica Caloza today…
aug 28, 2025, 3:01 am • 4 0 • view
sb79 has no protection for a huge number of long term rent controlled tenants who will be forced out of SF if their buildings are targeted wiener knows this
aug 28, 2025, 4:32 am • 0 0 • view
That's not true at all. SB 79 does not allow the demolition of rent controlled buildings with more than two units, and tenants get the same relocation benefits and potential right-to-return as they get with any other development (yes, there are flaws in those rights, which I am trying to fix)
aug 28, 2025, 4:33 am • 9 0 • view
See, you're lyning. "More than two units" <-- at least you were honest about hat. What comprises a HUGE number of rent-controlled units in SF (which must be older homes)? Two-family Victorians snugged right up to transit lines. Who lives in them? Long-time rent-controlled tenants. 1/2
aug 28, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
we know from LONG experience that "renoviction" is very effective at kicking people out of SF. Fewer than 50%, maybe 1/3 at most, can use "right to return" because they can't survive in SF for 1-3 years at market rate during reno. Also the replacement will be smaller (only requires same # bedrooms)
aug 28, 2025, 4:38 am • 0 0 • view
IDK the details in SF, but in LA, tenants get MUCH higher relocation assistance payments for new construction (Chart B) than for renovations (Chart A). I think $84k - $112k should be enough to cover rent for 1-3 years?
aug 28, 2025, 4:51 am • 2 0 • view
Those large sums are for low income people. What are the cutoffs? Middle class won't get that. Rent Assume$2500/mo = $30K/or or more to market rate. $20K one-time won't help. AND the "temp" place will want 12mo leases. When "return" time comes w/ 2 mos to move or lose, they have to break a lease.
aug 28, 2025, 4:58 am • 0 0 • view
The cutoff for low income for a one person household in Los Angeles is $84,850
aug 28, 2025, 5:03 am • 1 0 • view
Wait. i'm confused. so the first chart you posted isn't relo sums but income cutoffs? the 2nd is the amount received?
aug 28, 2025, 5:07 am • 0 0 • view
No, for some reason the payment for a low-income household is equal to the cut-off income for a low-income household I guess?
aug 28, 2025, 5:09 am • 1 0 • view
Breaking a lease means ON THE HOOK for all remaining months if they can't re-rent the unit. We know from experience that when tenants are "temporarily" evicted for reno, most leave the city forever. SB79 its written to target exactly these tenancies as they are DEFINED as "underutilized"
aug 28, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
btw am i for more housing? fuck yes. but Scott knows EXACTLY what he was doing when he set up 2-family homes AND housing above retail to have no protection. Those are the targets of SB79. It's easy to see once you exclude all the "protected" homes.
aug 28, 2025, 4:41 am • 0 0 • view
I still can't believe Councilmember Padilla used *forcing a developer to reduce the size of an affordable housing project* as an example of how she is making housing more affordable for the people in her district!
aug 28, 2025, 1:12 am • 756 50 • view
After watching Id agree shes dumb but also look to her actions they are representing her current constituents. It just so happens her current constituents are not great people but they are active and do vote
aug 29, 2025, 8:11 am • 1 0 • view
Who does she think she's impressing with that disaster? I hope the EV think is just for the pipes and not the full charger. Getting the pipes ran is great for future proofing while keeping costs down. Paying day is always cheaper than tomorrow. But poor people can't afford EVs yet.
aug 30, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
Most politicians need to pull their heads out of their butts post haste.
aug 28, 2025, 5:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Did she just say yes I am apart of the housing solution because when people wanted me to stop a housing project I wasnt able to
aug 29, 2025, 1:24 am • 0 0 • view
And people wonder why the median home in SF is $1.4 million and over $800,000 in the state.
aug 28, 2025, 1:58 pm • 5 0 • view
She seems to be implying the neighbours were blocking a 6 story build so she got a comprimise.
aug 28, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
The neighbors have no say in the project
aug 28, 2025, 10:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Depending on the zoning laws, I suppose they could sue as abutters and delay it at every turn. But yeah *halving* the project sounds uh pretty drastic and I wouldn't be bragging about it.
aug 29, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Ah, OK. So she's deliberately misleading people. Urgh :(
aug 29, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
Which she admitted!
aug 28, 2025, 10:50 pm • 1 0 • view
honestly, I don't know this woman in the slightest, but she looks and acts a little too much like a young, inexperienced pushover, so it kinda sounds like the neighbors yelled at her, and she jumped to fix their problem!
aug 28, 2025, 11:00 pm • 1 0 • view
"I'm bringing a set of tiny homes to an underutilized...parking station" *Audible Sigh* Yeah dude me too
aug 28, 2025, 10:51 pm • 14 0 • view
is she oblivious to whats going on or
aug 28, 2025, 9:03 pm • 11 1 • view
She doesn't care about helping people, she just wants to make money off of corpos paying her to sabotage things.
aug 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 8 1 • view
I understand that Wiener didn't just go off on her full tilt because he has a bill to pass and if he looks angry the NIMBYs will exploit the clip. But he was too subdued, frankly.
aug 28, 2025, 1:21 am • 163 1 • view
This is how he works. Let him cook and get this thing across.
aug 28, 2025, 1:37 am • 14 0 • view
I think it helps the Jon Lovett is expressing that shock. Scott can let Imelda and Jon do the talking for him.
aug 28, 2025, 1:34 am • 135 1 • view
Scott knows what he’s doing.
aug 28, 2025, 2:36 am • 6 0 • view
watch the eyebrows
aug 28, 2025, 5:18 am • 5 0 • view
Jon's there going full YIMBY
aug 28, 2025, 4:09 am • 8 0 • view
There is a very real risk of YIMBY getting a reputation as an aggressive, condescending bro movement, so it’s good that Wiener showed restraint. It’s also why I like Buffy Wicks as a prominent face of the movement.
aug 28, 2025, 2:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Nah Scott is doing exactly what he needs to do to pass hard bills.
aug 28, 2025, 2:08 pm • 33 0 • view
There would've been no harm in briefly and calmly stating the number of lost affordable units there.
aug 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 10 0 • view
When your opponent is hoisting themself by their petard, the polite and correct thing to do is sit and watch and make sure they do it correctly -- which is exactly what Scott did.
aug 28, 2025, 7:50 pm • 15 0 • view
aug 28, 2025, 7:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Less housing and more parking! Exactly what LA needs
aug 28, 2025, 7:38 am • 18 0 • view
Also I love, neighbors wanted to kill it but I can’t. You don’t get credit for housing if you did nothing to advance it
aug 28, 2025, 3:59 pm • 11 0 • view
Ev chargers!!
aug 28, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
aug 27, 2025, 9:55 pm • 119 7 • view
She stated the permitting issues, Senator confirmed with the info on intentional nightmare logistics we’ve set up as a blockade to building. It’s not black or white but categorically declining any cooperation with the state puts her in some weird maga space. Did she run as a progressive?
aug 28, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I met Scott when he was running to be d10 supervisor in San Francisco in 2010. I think. he was standing on the street getting signatures to run. I signed but this was way before I knew anything about housing economics. so ironic. I thought I was a progressive at the time and signed to be nice.
aug 28, 2025, 12:48 am • 1 0 • view
what is there to debate. housing is an essential thing that we need for people to live for the love of God
aug 28, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
It’s hard to imagine Councilmember Padilla coming off much worse in this conversation.
aug 27, 2025, 10:12 pm • 330 1 • view
She comes off as a complete moron.
aug 28, 2025, 12:53 am • 6 0 • view
Why? She’s trying to protect the quality of life of existing residents.
aug 27, 2025, 10:28 pm • 2 0 • view
no she isn't. none of this affects their quality of life. there is no reason she should get a say in design decisions for apartment buildings built in her district
aug 27, 2025, 11:02 pm • 26 0 • view
wrong
aug 28, 2025, 12:54 am • 99 1 • view
it's well known that quality of life plummets when homeowners are brutally forced to look at four story buildings
aug 28, 2025, 3:47 am • 26 0 • view
Chicago babyeee
aug 28, 2025, 1:55 pm • 3 0 • view
come on
aug 27, 2025, 11:14 pm • 11 0 • view
Of existing home owners. She’s actively screwing all youth, renters, would be home buyers, merchants, taxpayers, etc, not even considering the rest of the region
aug 27, 2025, 10:48 pm • 109 0 • view
People who aren't landowners aren't full citizens
aug 27, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Living in your mom’s basement doesn’t make you a landowner.
aug 28, 2025, 12:57 am • 15 1 • view
There’s no difference between people who try and shut the door behind them once they have theres, and our ridiculous immigration policy. That’s immoral.
aug 27, 2025, 10:47 pm • 58 0 • view
Ladder puller uppers. I despise them as much as I do some pretty outright selfish people. At least one of them is immoral and honest.
aug 27, 2025, 11:27 pm • 17 0 • view
A six story apartment building doesn't negatively impact quality of life. The region has a fucking housing crisis and sprawling out ain't the solution. LA needs to get the fuck over itself and build upward.
aug 28, 2025, 2:57 am • 16 0 • view
No she's not. She's protecting precious pearl clutchers and throwing poor people into the street because they can't afford the ridiculous housing prices resulting from scarcity she's manufacturing.
aug 27, 2025, 11:36 pm • 32 0 • view
“Quality of life”
aug 27, 2025, 11:22 pm • 14 0 • view
I mean, only if you own a SFH or if you plan to stay in the same 1970s dingbat apartment forever
aug 27, 2025, 11:34 pm • 7 0 • view
you do realize that "quality of life" is just the pretext they use to mean "rack up property prices"
aug 29, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
Your quality of life won’t go down if there is a six story building next to you. Would even increase since there will be fewer homeless people
aug 28, 2025, 4:23 am • 3 0 • view
She's building a wall and she's gonna make Northridge pay for it.
aug 27, 2025, 11:32 pm • 8 0 • view
Do you also think you should get a veto on what position your neighbors have sex in? How about whether they're allowed to watch baseball tonight? How many stories the building next to you has does not harm you as long as they're constructed to standards, so you don't get a veto on that either.
aug 27, 2025, 11:45 pm • 18 0 • view
You probably think you're entitled to decide what women do with their own bodies, too. Take your anti-choice agenda elsewhere.
aug 27, 2025, 11:46 pm • 3 0 • view
So we read your comment. And your profile. Save it for St. Peter at the gate.
aug 27, 2025, 11:40 pm • 7 0 • view
"Free will" Unless you want to build housing, then no free will for you.
aug 28, 2025, 1:04 am • 3 0 • view
Her policies are driving car dependency, which is the leading source of american CO2 emissions.
aug 28, 2025, 12:26 am • 153 0 • view
Yeah but on the other hand, car dependency also kills hundreds of Angelenos every year.
aug 28, 2025, 1:12 am • 118 0 • view
While I don’t like adding more infrastructure for cars. People still want independent freedom especially if communities keep building shitty ass suburbs. Everyone wants public rail, anything else is a band-aid. I’m not biking to work. (Granted I live in Ohio so my point may be moot)
aug 28, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Get an ebike they're magic
aug 28, 2025, 8:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Nah. If I get anything it will be like an actual Yamaha, or Honda sports bike.
aug 28, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Demand destruction the hard way
aug 28, 2025, 1:14 am • 27 0 • view
Hundreds in car crashes and pedestrian deaths, probably tens of thousands due to air pollution
aug 28, 2025, 6:42 am • 1 0 • view
Have you considered, though, that most of her constituents really can't afford cars, gas, and insurance, so forcing them to drive everywhere is incredibly regressive and harmful in the immediate term? She doesn't hate working people and the poor. She just acts indistinguishably from those that do. 😵
aug 28, 2025, 3:51 am • 4 0 • view
her and richie torres having a battle of shitty appearances this week
aug 28, 2025, 6:57 pm • 5 0 • view
I dunno Richie Torres might be an all time bad interview appearance. She just nimby'd it up.
aug 28, 2025, 9:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Incredibly relevant song youtu.be/ratQlft_G5c
aug 28, 2025, 10:12 pm • 1 0 • view
19:15 for the moment it was as bad as you made it out to be holy shit
aug 28, 2025, 7:03 pm • 3 0 • view
God I wish nithya was on the metro board instead of her
aug 28, 2025, 2:59 am • 45 0 • view
she should run for mayor
aug 28, 2025, 4:09 am • 13 0 • view
holy shit YES. she could be la’s mamdani for sure
aug 28, 2025, 8:29 pm • 7 0 • view
I worry that she wouldn’t run against bass and would go for an open election the following cycle. But maybe people can convince her. (I could also see her being reluctant to seek the mayorship at all since she’s not a careerist - which is a good thing, at least)
aug 28, 2025, 8:53 pm • 6 0 • view
I dont care about her career as much as I care about trains, bike and bus lanes, housing, parks, and good government reforms. (like ranked choice voting and expanding the number of councilmembers.)
aug 28, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Austinite here who would love a six-story affordable housing development in my neighborhood (with no parking whatsoever!), come here and build it thx
aug 28, 2025, 12:36 am • 28 0 • view
Don't know why you'd have to remove 3 stories to add EV charging. My bike uses a regular outlet and is fully charged in under 2 hours.
aug 28, 2025, 12:43 am • 31 0 • view
Mine is charged after I have coffee!
aug 28, 2025, 12:56 am • 16 0 • view
I TRIED to watch, but couldn’t get past the first 2 minutes of her talking about “unfunded mandates” before I realized she had NO CLUE what she was talking about.
aug 28, 2025, 2:03 am • 43 0 • view
That was what I wish Weiner or Lovett had called out. SB79 mandates cities do nothing whatsoever, it just overrides some local mandates (that’s anti-housing laws). She clearly just has latched onto a term she thinks supports the NIMBY case and is throwing it around as a cudgel.
aug 28, 2025, 4:21 am • 25 0 • view
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
aug 29, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
The EV charging station but feels extremely out of touch.
aug 28, 2025, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Coulda had some free shoes!
aug 28, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 11:16 pm • 4 0 • view
just watched. even if i disagree with her i was astounded that she talked about everything in a way that's only intelligible if you're deep into housing in the *city* of LA. on a show of national scope
aug 27, 2025, 11:31 pm • 23 0 • view
Someone on her team didn't prep her properly (or no one prepped her at all).
aug 27, 2025, 11:54 pm • 25 0 • view
I felt like it demonstrated how ingrained “I call the shots on development” (and more) is for LA City Councilmembers
aug 28, 2025, 3:21 am • 5 0 • view
She put in the same amount of prep she puts into her housing policy
aug 27, 2025, 11:55 pm • 26 0 • view
But weirdly, her perspective is very national/international. She all but says that the world expects Hollywood to look a certain way, even at the expense of letting people actually live there.
aug 28, 2025, 2:13 pm • 4 0 • view
oh god why did I watch this. I am so angry now. jesus christ.
aug 27, 2025, 10:07 pm • 39 0 • view
tell people to call their reps in support of sb79
aug 28, 2025, 4:10 am • 9 0 • view
In fact, here's an easy link to find the phone number to do it! streetsforall.org/sb79
aug 28, 2025, 4:30 am • 5 0 • view