At the June LAEDC Board of Governor’s meeting, leaders from across LA’s manufacturing landscape gathered to assess the state of manufacturing in Los Angeles and offer a grounded view of the opportunities and barriers to re-shoring production and growing local industry and small businesses.

The Commission's primary recommendations are to establish a Resilient Rebuilding Authority with financing powers and tools to accelerate the pace and reduce the cost of rebuilding and to create Fire Control District with permanent funding for regional fire mitigation activities

Utilizing Vienna as a case study, the authors describe how a broader paradigm shift towards quality, human-sale development can make housing more affordable while delivering on housing needs and neighborhood desires.

Using novel data collected from the Tenant Power Toolkit—this study traces the pattern of practice and often automated process of eviction as a tool of racial banishment embedded in contemporary real estate finance in LA.

In the aftermath of the LA Wildfires, Sam Hall Kaplan reports on the sudden halt in rebuilding activity across fire-impacted communities like Malibu and links the disruption to escalating immigration enforcement actions

From serial CEQA litigation and jurisdictional fragmentation to the politics of vilifying developers, Jessica Lall and Carl Muhlstein unpack how outdated processes and a culture of distrust undermine the city’s capacity to address housing affordability, revitalize Downtown, and deliver on its Olympic ambitions.

This op-ed by Gideon Kracov and Darrell Steinberg calls on policymakers, practitioners, and project proponents to embrace alternative dispute resolution more intentionally as California takes on pressing housing, climate, and infrastructure challenges.