Angelenos will vote next week on Measure S, which restricts development in the city for two years. It’s stirred up a heated debate: Should LA build higher, denser developments near public transit, or stay as a network of neighborhoods with single family homes and small apartment buildings?
Press Play hosts a special broadcast live from Hollywood’s Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, exploring how the housing crisis in LA has caused an identity crisis for Angelenos.
Breaking Point: Housing, density and the future of LA
Credits
Guests:
- Richard Close - Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association
- Mott Smith - Civic Enterprise - @CivicEnterprise
- Manuel Pastor - director of USC's Equity Research Institute - @Prof_MPastor
- Joel Kotkin - fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University
- Grace Yoo - Koreatown activist and attorney
- Alberto Retana - Community Coalition - @aretana