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Liam Dillon

@dillonliam

Covering housing in Los Angeles and California @politico. DMs open; https://t.co/L88aHkveAi

Los Angeles, CA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
For the Measure ULA heads. The LA City Council’s committee that aims to recommend a new local measure for the November ballot will be chaired by DTLA Councilmember Ysabel Jurado with Valley councilmembers John Lee and Imelda Padilla also on the panel.
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Julia Wick@sherlyholmes·
My first story for L.A. Material is a behind-the-scenes account of the week that remade the L.A. mayoral race — how the city’s political class scrambled to marshal an alternative to Mayor Karen Bass, and ended up w a challenger no one saw coming. lamaterial.com/p/five-days-th…
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
I was struck by this homeowner advocate's stance that buying a house in a single-family-home neighborhood means you should have a kind of "vesting" in that neighborhood remaining single-family — the same as a developer with zoning for their projects subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/0…
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
I'm moderating a panel on wildfire recovery in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, talking to key community leaders from Altadena, Pacific Palisades and Malibu. Should be informative! zeffy.com/en-US/ticketin…
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Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
I don’t think there’s ever been en a technology whose builders constantly promise that, if they succeed, tens of millions of jobs will be destroyed and the world might end.
Brad Gerstner@altcap

AI is deeply unpopular. According to Pew, sadly only 17% of Americans think AI will have a positive impact. In China, 83% believe AI will be positive. A token tax & political backlash is coming unless the narrative changes. 🇺🇸👀🧐

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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
@AdventuresOTM Yes that was a ballot measure change made in response to the article
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
How do the children of homeowners in California get to inherit their parents' low property tax rates? We did the definitive story on what became known as "the Lebowski Loophole" in 2018 latimes.com/politics/la-po…
Romy@Romy_Holland

I recently found out California lets people keep the original tax rate on inherited property so long as they use it as their primary residence. my terrible next door neighbor who berates children for ringing her doorbell on halloween pays property tax on a $100k value because she had the good fortune to inherit her $1.7mm house. sometimes I feel like California is the place where they said "what if we just tried every bad housing policy JUST TO SEE."

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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
One update here. The LA city council ULA committee will have "up to five" members not three
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For all the LA "mansion tax" watchers out there, the LA city council created a three-member committee today to recommend changes to the initiative for a possible new local vote on the Nov ballot. Comes as a potential Nov statewide initiative threatens to wipe out the tax.
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white girl magic@misslivejournal·
@dillonliam They only get the first million and they have to live in the house chill
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
@UnrigLA @JohnGonzalesLA1 @mhdcd8 As part of the motion all ULA items — including Rodriguez and earlier Raman item — get pulled from wherever they were and into the new committee.
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Unrig LA@UnrigLA·
@JohnGonzalesLA1 @dillonliam @mhdcd8 Passed 15-0. MRod motion was referred to committee. Not necessarily in conflict w/ this motion so it could still have life on its own to supplement what they are doing.
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NBER@nberpubs·
Housing markets price access to reproductive health care. Post-Dobbs total abortion bans reduced rents by 2.2 percent and increased rental vacancy rates by 1.1 percentage points, from Daniel L. Dench, Kelly Lifchez, @jasonmlindo, and Jancy Ling Liu nber.org/papers/w34921
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
From the weekend: Why it makes sense that housing is where Trump and Mamdani can find common cause and how Mamdani and LA's Nithya Raman and seeking to upend a half century of urban housing politics and a decade-long fight on the left. politico.com/news/2026/03/0…
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
@mottsmith @maxdubler Reasonable. Wish I had space to get into this a little more in the story, through Dave Rand’s comments about LADWP hint at it. There’s a technocratic element to Raman/Mandani that ties a lot of this together. A kind of “sewer socialism”
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mottsmith@mottsmith·
Honestly, I don’t think that explains apartment operator openness to considering Nithya. This article talks about tenant productions plus housing production. Most owners I know are neutral on production but care much more about being able to operate their businesses in the context of rising costs (insurance and utilities, notably) and flat rents. The fact that Nithya is curious about what enables operators to function is what makes some operators curious about whether she’ll be a step up from the current mayor.
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Liam Dillon@dillonliam·
Want to understand why a Los Angeles apartment owner/real estate influencer would say that Nithya Raman was trying to "destroy" the city 2.5 years ago yet now is Raman-curious in the upcoming mayoral election? Buddy, do I have a story for you. politico.com/news/2026/03/0…
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