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Budget/Finance

Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates 2024 White Paper: Who Is Doing The Work?

UN4LA Letter to NCs Re Budget Reform, October 2024

Revenue Forecast 2024-2025 Summary from LA City Controller

Trouble Ahead: Report from LA Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, April 2022

LA County Supervisors Approve Downsized Budget: No Department Is Spared From Cuts And Layoffs, June 2020

LA City Budget Advocate Report to the Neighborhood Councils #12, February 2021

LA City Council Fiddles While LA Hemorrhages, September 2020

LA Budget Crisis: Two (Not-So) Easy Pieces, November 2020

Ethics

City of Inglewood

Review of Inglewood's Internal Control System by State Controller, May 2020

Inglewood Treasurer Files $10 Million Claim Against City, Mayor and Council, February 2021

Inglewood treasurer scores major victory in recent court ruling, April 2022

Inglewood city treasurer ordered to pay fees in employment dispute, September 2022

City of Los Angeles

Chinese Company’s SoCal Subsidiary Agrees to Pay More Than $1 Million to Resolve Criminal Investigation into Bribe Payments, October 2020

New Indictment in RICO Case Against Former L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar Adds 5 Defendants, Including a Former Deputy Mayor, November 2020

Former L.A. City Councilman Mitch Englander Ordered to Serve 14 Months in Federal Prison for Scheming to Obstruct Corruption Probe, January 2021

Developer Agrees to Pay $1.2 Million to Resolve Criminal Probe into Executive’s Relationship with Ex-L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar, January 2021

Chinese Real Estate Developer’s L.A.-Based Company Found Guilty of Paying Over $1 Million in Bribes to L.A. Politician José Huizar, November 2022

Former Los Angeles City Politician José Huizar Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy and Tax Evasion Charges, January 2023

Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Found Guilty of Racketeering Conspiracy, March 2024

Other Ethics Issues

UN4LA Lobbying Report: City of Los Angeles, 2019

Reseda NC Questions Spending by DONE on NC Elections

Housing

UN4LA Wins: Court Stops Hotel Project Involving Demo of RSO Housing

UN4LA Back in Court: City of LA Re-Approves Hotel Project Involving Demo of RSO Housing

CA HCD Letter to LA City Planning Re Housing Element, February 2022

The Vacancy Report: How Los Angeles Leaves Homes Empty and People Unhoused

Council Report Back on the Amount of Vacant, Habitable Housing Units in Los Angeles, LA Housing & Community Investment Department

UN Report on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living

Homeless Lawsuit: LA Alliance Motion for Injunction

Homeless Lawsuit: Legal Aid Foundation Opposition to Motion

Request for Audit of CA Dept. of Housing & Community Development

Planning/Development

Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land

The Warner Center 2035 Specific Plan: A Developers’ Bonanza

Nury, Salvaging Your “Community Plans” Ballot Measure

Central City United People’s Plan

El Plan del Pueblo, Boyle Heights

Building Justice: Racial Equity in Planning for Unincorporated Los Angeles County

La Mirada Neighborhood Assoc. v. City of LA, Hollywood Community Plan Update Decision, December 2014

Transportation/Transit

LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Ridership Statistics

Federal Transit Administration Local Agency Profiles

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Falling Transit Ridership, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies

Dodger Gondola Lawsuit Rejected by Court

Dodger Gondola in Limbo

Urban Forest/Green Space

Protecting the Urban Forest: UN4LA Wins Lawsuit over Sidewalk Repair Program EIR

Public Trees for Public Good from Tree People

Increased Home Size and Hardscape Decreases Urban Forest Cover in LA County

Rooted Connections: Understanding South LA Community Leaders' Relationship to the Urban Forest

State of the Street Trees Report, City of LA, 2015

State of California’s Street Trees, 2015