The City of West Hollywood and Book Soup present a special evening with former Los Angeles City Councilperson and Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky discussing and signing Zev’s Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power.
The event will take place on Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 7 p.m. at the City of West Hollywood’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. The discussion is free. Books will be for sale by Book Soup for an after-event signing with Yaroslavsky. To RSVP and for more information, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zev-yaroslavsky-discusses-zevs-los-angeles-tickets-676183642477.
Zev Yaroslavsky, a young social activist, became one of Los Angeles’ most powerful and consequential elected officials, taking on established power brokers and sparking major reforms in policing, transit, land use and fiscal policies. In a Los Angeles political career spanning four decades (LA City Council 1975-1994, LA County Board of Supervisors 1994-2014), Yaroslavsky played a central role in shaping America’s largest metropolitan areas. Health care, transportation, arts and culture, the environment, and fiscal policy were his domain.
For more information, please contact Jennifer Del Toro, City of West Hollywood Community and Legislative Affairs Supervisor, at (323) 848-6549 or at [email protected].
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Hopefully someone will ask him why he is completely anti-housing and anti-development and anti-progress of any kind. And he’s been in office since the 1970’s, and why he has no plan to get the homeless vagrants off our public streets, and why the problem has only gotten worse since he has been around, and if he thinks the problem will somehow magically go away.
Are you suggesting that he advocates a local society frozen in amber?
He has said the city (Los Angeles) is “full”. There’s no more room at the Inn. He constantly talks about population density. I guess what I’m saying is that he is out of touch. Los Angeles (city) isn’t even on the list of 140 most dense places in the U.S. (Weho is 22nd, with around 7,300 people per square kilometer). He is close-minded, and against any new housing. This of course helps create a shortage of housing and drives up prices and makes the whole area unaffordable for many.
Perhaps you can enlighten some of us as to the date/year when LA/WEHO was declared “in a housing crisis” and what specific elements determined that?