What We Need Now: A Community Accountability Agenda for the 2028 LA Olympics

The institutional machinery is moving faster than democratic oversight. Here is a specific accountability agenda — addressed to the Board of Supervisors, the City Council, LA28, and the organizations already doing this work — and what to watch for before the World Cup begins June 11.

The World Is Solving Homelessness. Why Isn't LA?

While Buenos Aires redesigned their entire homeless response system during an economic collapse, Greater Manchester cut rough sleeping by 42% through prevention, and Lisbon is moving people from streets into jobs — Los Angeles approved $843 million in homeless spending that includes nearly $200 million in cuts. The world knows what works. The only thing LA lacks is the will to try.

Part 3: The Money and the Mechanisms from Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of Second Grace LA

Los Angeles has $700-790 million in available funding to build 11,700-15,000 Vienna-style social housing units by the 2028 Olympics. Learn how Measure ULA, Palisades reconstruction, and Olympic funds can solve our housing crisis with proven cost-rent financing models.