Scott Epstein
@scottforla
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Policy & Research Director with @AbundantHousing // Former Candidate for LA City Council
Los Angeles
Joined March 2010
I'm delighted to embark on a new role as Policy & Research Director w/@AbundantHousing! Every Angeleno has the right to affordable high quality housing in the neighborhood of their choice. I'm excited to join AHLA to fight for abundant & equitable housing in LA & CA.
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RT @cd4losangeles: I’ve chosen to see this as a win. In a city that has said no to housing for decades, a third of the council voted to exp…
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I'm so excited to have a role model for my daughter like VP Harris in the oval office for the next 4 years. It's time to make history.
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RT @DrDenaGrayson: WOW! I’ve seen a lot of campaign ads during my time in politics, and @KamalaHarris’ latest one is 🔥🔥 Video via @MeidasT…
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An amazing slate of candidates from different walks of life but with shared values to build a just, healthy, sustainable Santa Monica. Support these folks any way you can!
These four candidates are who we need to make Santa Monica an inclusive, pro-housing city. Please like, share, and send to your Santa Monica friends!
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Shapiro nails it. The irresponsibility of Vance is staggering and dangerous.
Josh Shapiro on Vance's latest CNN disasterclass: "That was bonkers ... the US senator from Ohio just came on your show and blamed his own constituents for his own lies. This guy is so pathetic ... JD Vance should be ashamed of himself."
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That's a lot of organizations saying enough is enough - it's time to reverse decades of segregation and open up exclusionary communities to new diverse residents!
@InnerCityLaw @SCANPH @AbundantHousing and 57 of our partner organizations have serious concerns about LA's plan to exclude single-family homes from the city's #rezoning program #housingpolicy #housingnews #housingjustice Read more:
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RT @stanfordNYC: This has been studied - America's low life expectancy is because of guns, drugs and car crashes killing young people. Our…
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RT @s_webber: Very sorry to disappoint Republicans and the national media, but Kamala got the entire Democratic Party behind her in about 4…
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RT @jonlovett: Last few weeks were heated because we all understand the stakes and share the same goal. I don’t think Trump and MAGA are re…
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Huge thank you to Controller Mejia for his leadership! This is a pivotal moment for our city. It's time to finally combat LA's historic patterns of housing segregation.
Should single-family zones exclude affordable housing OR should affordable housing be built equitably throughout LA? 🤔 🚨 On Thurs 7/25, City Planning is holding a public hearing on the Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP) which covers these topics
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With traffic volumes down because of Pride, people are showing how wide sidewalks should be on La Cienega Blvd. @WeHoCity: listen to folks voting with their feet and make this boulevard a human place rather than a traffic sewer.
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Check out our thread on LA's Citywide Incentive Program, AHLA's top local policy priority for 2024, and join the chorus of organizations and individuals saying that exempting single-family zoned parcels will prevent us from meeting our housing goals and fuel displacement.
🚨 Major new LA Housing strategy announced 🚨 It's LA's Citywide Housing Incentive Program, or "CHIP." This thread explains: 👉🏽 What it does 👉🏽 If it'll work and most importantly 👉🏽👉🏽 How you can help improve it! 👈🏽👈🏽 1/
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RT @stan_okl: I've been in Paris for just about 5 hours and I haven't slept in about a day and a half, but this place has the GDP/capita of…
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I said then that this was 1 of my proudest votes as Chair of MCW & was mocked for that comment by the neighbor who appealed the project. It remains a point of pride that our community said YES! In the future I hope we can build these projects in < 5 years. Still work to do!
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Urbanist goal met: quoted in the same piece as @DonaldShoup talking about the benefits of eliminating parking minimums! Proud of the work that @AbundantHousing has been doing to reform parking in LA.
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@Madre_de_Kirby @AbundantHousing We couldn't agree more that we need a variety of building and unit types for different family sizes, incomes, and preferences!
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This right here is my vision for LA's future! So happy we will have Nithya working toward that vision over the next 4 years.
Across the city, voters sent a loud, clear message about the Los Angeles that they want to build – one with much more housing, safer streets with more bus and bike infrastructure, more green spaces, stronger protections for renters facing a brutal housing market, [cont’d]
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