Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Mitch O’Farrell

Cross section rendering of Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments project currently under construction - via Little Tokyo Service Center

Affordable Housing Breaks Ground above Santa Monica/Vermont Metro Station

By Joe Linton | May 4, 2022 | No Comments

Little Tokyo Service Center's Santa Monica & Vermont Apartments will be 187-units, 100 percent affordable, with half low-income units and half permanent supportive housing for unhoused Angelenos - plus ground floor retail

Elysian Valley's new Taylor Yard walk/bike bridge - under construction in 2021. Photo by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

L.A. City Hosts Invitation-Only Grand Opening of New Elysian Valley Bike/Ped Bridge

By Joe Linton | Mar 14, 2022 | No Comments

In the works since 1992, the city of L.A. finally opened its new Elysian Valley Taylor Yard bike/ped bridge. Streetsblog was almost there at the opening.

Venice and Hollywood Piloting Expanded Unarmed Response to Non-Emergency Incidents Involving Unhoused Angelenos

By Damien Newton | Jan 19, 2022 | No Comments

In pilot areas - Venice and Hollywood - CIRCLE response teams are responding to 911 calls regarding unhoused individuals - including wellbeing checks, loitering, indecent exposure, noise disturbances, and needle disposal

New Grand Avenue bus lane - photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Eyes on the Street: New Bus Lane on Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A.

By Joe Linton | Nov 29, 2021 | No Comments

The new southbound Grand Avenue bus lane extends just over one mile - from Hope Place to Pico Boulevard. It forms a couplet with a northbound bus lane on Olive Street.

Last Tuesday's city council meeting was held in an empty chamber. Those hoping to make public comment were kept outside under a tent in the cold. They could see and hear the councilmembers, but the councilmembers could only hear them. [Screenshot of the live feed taken at some point during the eight hour marathon.]

As Council Heads to Chambers Today, a Plea that It Abandon the Do-No-Harm-to-Landlords Doctrine

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 27, 2020 | No Comments

While arguing to limit the grace period tenants would have to pay back any missed rent to six months during the marathon city council session last Tuesday, March 17, Second District councilmember Paul Krekorian beseeched his colleagues to consider the Hippocratic Oath – the pledge physicians make to do no harm – and not enact […]

Screenshot of LeaseUp website, described as "Zillow for affordable supportive housing"

New “LeaseUp” Initiative Partners to Lease Housing to Curb Homelessness

By Joe Linton | Nov 30, 2018 | No Comments

The new Measure H funded "LeaseUp" program partners landlords and non-profits to get homeless people into available existing housing units.

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