homelessness

To Regional Leaders: Comprehensive Planning Must Be Integrated into Pro-Housing Conversation

SCAG's recent California Housing Summit focused on the chronic shortage of affordable housing in Los Angeles. TPR presents an except from a breakout session moderated by Santa Monica City Manager Rick Cole, entitled “Integrate, Preserve, Utilized, and Build,” which focused on how good community and infrastructure planning must work in tandem with pro-housing advocates.

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas Prioritizes LA County’s Homeless

Over the past year, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas has used his platform to push for action to address both Los Angeles and California's historic homelessness epidemic. Sup. Ridley-Thomas joins TPR to talk about November's Prop HHH and future policy measures to address both the housing and services issues.

Sacramento Mayor-Elect Darrell Steinberg Shares His Priorities & Agenda

Mayor-elect Steinberg takes office in December, inheriting a region undergoing significant transformation. In an exclusive interview, the former leader of the state Senate shares his vision for reducing homelessness, diversifying Sacramento's economy, and implementing his urban infill policies.

Los Angeles' Homelessness Crisis: Leadership from Jerry Neuman and Business Community

TPR sits down with Jerry Neuman, co-chairman of Home For Good, an endeavor started in 2010 by the Business Leader’s Task Force on Homelessness, to explain how civic leaders are taking action to end chronic and veteran homelessness, and provide a blueprint for reducing homelessness in Southern California.

Affordable Housing’s Elephant In The Room: Operating and Preserving Multi-Family Housing

John Given discusses the need to preserve affordability in the operating rental housing market. His vision: putting 20 percent of LA’s existing housing stock under mission-driven control within the next 10 years.

Recognizing Kent Smith’s Successful Leadership of LA’s Fashion District BID—TPR Exit Interview

Kent Smith, Executive Director for the Fashion District Business Improvement District, shares some lessons that allowed him to make a positive impact in shaping Downtown Los Angeles.

Commerce & Homelessness Meet Uneasily on Los Angeles St.