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Feb 17, 2025 42 min

Shoup Hug

from LA Podcast Hosted by Alissa Walker, Godfrey Plata, Mike Bonin

Alissa, Mike, and Godfrey discuss yet another new LA rebuilding effort focused on climate — and why this one could be different. Plus, California becomes even more uninsurable, and city leaders are colluding to stop affordable housing in Venice. And remembering Donald Shoup, the UCLA professor who changed the way LA looked at parking. UCLA’s new Blue Ribbon Commission "to promote a safe, resilient recovery” announced by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath The Science Moms Super Bowl ad that benefitted California Community Foundation’s wildfire recovery fund LAT: “Palisades checkpoints to remain, Bass says, reversing course hours before reopening” LAT: After critics blast move to pay L.A. wildfire recovery czar $500,000, he’ll do it for free" “Lawmakers shouldn’t use the fires as an excuse to slow down on clean energy,” writes Los Angeles Times columnist Sammy Roth The FAIR plan, California’s insurer of last resort has run out of money California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara confirmed that the state’s insurance customers will see temporary fee increases to cover the FAIR plan Remembrances of legendary parking reform advocate Donald Shoup from UCLA, the Los Angeles Times, Henry Grabar, and Alissa’s piece at Torched The High Cost of Free Parking video by Vox Produced by Sophie Bridges

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Alissa, Mike, and Godfrey discuss yet another new LA rebuilding effort focused on climate — and why this one could be different. Plus, California becomes even more uninsurable, and city leaders are colluding to stop affordable housing in Venice. And remembering Donald Shoup, the UCLA professor who changed the way LA looked at parking.

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