The Lost Dogs of Skid RowAug 27
we spent a day on los angeles’ skid row, where we saw pubes, butts, barefoot kids walking around needles, dogs with broken legs, lost puppies, and illegal breeders
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How LA Destroyed Its Housing Market — And Sent Young People Packing
los angeles keeps making it harder to build, buy, and stay, as its “mansion tax” and other restrictions fuel a massive exodus.
Nicole Wizman
Oct 14, 2026
In 2023, Measure United to House LA (ULA), took effect.
The so-called “mansion tax” imposed a 4% tax on property sales above $5 million (and a 5.5% tax on sales above $10 million).
Enthusiastically backed by DSA-endorsed mayoral nominee Nithya Raman, now up 11 points in the mayoral race, the tax was marketed as a Eat the Rich progressive redistribution scheme, per Nithya in a 2023 interview, that would redirect money from wealthy homeowners toward affordable housing and homelessness prevention.
Despite the nickname, the measure also hit apartment buildings, commercial property, warehouses, and vacant land. UCLA said it would raise $923 million a year — enough over a decade to help produce 26,000 affordable units and support 43,000 construction jobs.
But once again, a tax passed by the tender-hearted bureaucrats of the Golden State seems to be achieving… the literal opposite of its stated purpose.
The Lost Dogs of Skid Row
Inside Xavier Becerra’s $782 Million Migrant Sleepaway Camp From HellSep 21
the california dem candidate for governor once funded a $92,608-per-cot migrant facility that may have sent kids to trafficking rings
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Nithya's Catastrophic Homelessness RecordAug 11
as city council homelessness chair, raman greenlit hundreds of millions of dollars for programs she *knew* had issues, failed to catch rampant waste, and watched homelessness rise
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