The Los Angeles Conservancy commissioned this study to better understand how historic preservation contributes to the growth and vitality of our city. From this report, it is clear that preservation plays a positive role in promoting stable neighborhoods, protecting existing affordable housing, and meeting new housing and creative office needs through adaptive reuse. It also … Continue reading “Preservation Positive Los Angeles”
Last year, President Trump signed Executive Order 13878, “Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing.” Historic Preservation requirements are among several “regulatory barriers” cited in the Executive Order. We know this is not true! HUD issued a request for information asking the public to submit examples of regulatory barriers at … Continue reading “Comments to the White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing”
At PlaceEconomics we acknowledge that the aesthetic, symbolic, cultural, etc. values of historic preservation are real, but are difficult if not impossible to quantify. In the long run, those values are more important than the values of historic preservation enumerated and quantified in this report. But as the great British economist John Maynard Keynes once … Continue reading “Twenty-Four Reasons Historic Preservation is Good for Your Community”