[throwaway98211]

> for people unfamiliar with los angeles, is very much a city of landed gentry. republican legislation designed to curtail rising taxes for elderly residents 40 years ago wound up creating a cloistered elite of land-owners that pay nearly nothing in tax and resist any attempt to create additional housing. They coast on a bubble of six-figure increases in equity per year with little to prevent a ramshackle bungalow in inglewood from fetching a cash-only two million dollar price.

yeah right... this is all 'the republicans' fault. Say what you will about conservatives, but a party that has held majority since the nineties (and more recently a supermajority) has no one but themselves to blame.

Obviously prop 13 / single family zoning has had an effect on housing, along with taxes, onerous building codes and environmental regulation. However, as long the Homeless Industrial Complex controls the narrative with well-intention voters, and gets to call the shots on where / how to 'address' to problem, the problem of pervasive homelessness is not going to be fixed. We've simply created the wrong set of incentives.