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The Granny Flat Gambit: Vigilance and the Struggle for Self-Governance

Posted on December 19, 2009 by

“A people cannot have the consciousness of being self-governing unless they attend themselves to the things over against their doors.” — Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Those immortal words of the autocratic president of the University of California 100 years ago do … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood: Granny Flats, Converted Garages, Houses Turned into Tenements

Posted on November 16, 2009 by

This may be the most desperate and despicable act yet by City Hall in its long war to eradicate the middle class from Los Angeles. They call it a proposed Accessory Dwelling Unit ordinance. That’s a phrase intended to obscure … Continue reading →

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Who’s Killing Your Neighborhood? It’s Not a Mystery Anymore

Posted on October 23, 2009 by

For the last 18 months I tracked how the city dealt with the illegal conversion of a single-family home into a three-apartment tenement and wrote it as a 16-part mystery called “Whodunit: Who’s Killing My Neighborhood?” Now, I learn from … Continue reading →

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