The Basin
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basin.laSPORTS AND ATHLETICS
The Los Angeles Coliseum will soon become the only venue on earth to have sold tickets to three Olympic Games. Some of those tickets have increased in price... 77 fold.
LOS ANGELES
HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE
LA has more empty homes than homeless people. Its relatively low vacancy rate makes a weaker case for treating those homes as a substitute for new housing.
MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
That covers police personnel. Equipment costs extra, other departments still have no published estimates, and the city doesn't know how much it will get back.
CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Census employment estimates put Downtown far ahead of every other LA neighborhood.
CALIFORNIA
LGBTQ ISSUES
Los Angeles ranks 93rd of the 100 largest American cities for park space, while twelve private country clubs sit on 1,896 acres assessed at $317 million. The seven clubs still using a 1960 constitutional carve-out pay $1.4 million a year between them. West Hollywood, on a smaller footprint, pays $199 million.