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Exhausting Our Air: Environmental and Human Costs of Diesel Trucks

September 28, 2023 / By Daniel Flaming and Patrick Burns / Sierra Club

California’s mandates to replace diesel trucks with zero-emission electric trucks will bring cleaner air and better jobs – if they stay on track. Slow action by electric utilities and fierce opposition by trucking companies are real threats. Displacement of brick-and-mortar retail stores by online retailing and sprawling warehouses has come at the cost of climate change, bad air, low wages.

Demolishing Homes for Air Cargo: San Bernardino Airport Gateway Plan

June 19, 2023 / By Daniel Flaming and Patrick Burns / Sierra Club

The Inland Valley Development Agency plans to convert a 678-acre residential and mixed-use area north of San Bernardino International Airport into 9.2 million-square feet of warehouse and industrial space to create “a thriving jobs center.” This gesture at economic development has already been shown to create poverty-level jobs, economic hardship, and precariously housed workers.

Places for Homes: Where Los Angeles Can Build More Housing: Concept Paper on Redeveloping Rent Stabilized Properties in the City of Los Angeles

September 20, 2022 / By Patrick Burns, Daniel Flaming and Ken Baar / Economic Roundtable

A Quarter of a Million New Homes: Concept paper exploring the potential for redeveloping existing, rent-stabilized housing sites at higher density to meet LA City's mandate to allow construction of 255,433 new homes, including 130,553 units for lower-income households.

Economic Study of the Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO) and the Los Angeles Housing Market

August 1, 2009 / By Daniel Flaming, Patrick Burns, Michael Matsunaga, Mirna Ponce, Ken Baar, Raphael Bostic and Malcolm Bennett / City of Los Angeles Housing Department

Severe overcrowding in Los Angeles rental housing fell 63 percent from 2000 to 2007, the most recent year for which data is available. Only 9 percent of renters are severely overcrowded, with 1.5 or more occupants per room. The bad news is that 58 percent of renters are rent-burdened, paying 30 percent or more of their income for rent. 

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