Quality of Strife

Alissa, Rachel, and Sophie talk about yet another new ICE detention center that’s opened in a former private prison in the Central Valley. How a new citywide adaptive reuse ordinance could convert vacant buildings into housing. Then, UCLA’s Los Angeles County Quality of Life Index dips to an all-time low. How bad are the vibes? CalMatters : “ ICE quietly opens another detention center in a former California prison ” The opening is part of a larger push by the regime and ICE to acquire more than 20 warehouses to be converted to concentration camps, according to a new ACLU report , which also notes that at least 17 people have died in ICE custody this year In March, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez honored Alberto Gutierrez Reyes, “a Westlake resident, husband, and father,” who died in ICE custody after being denied medical care at a facility in Adelanto Rachel would like to remind everyone that California’s new concentration camp is about a three-hour, 200-mile drive from Manzanar, one of ten camps that were used to incarcerate our Japanese-American neighbors not even 100 years ago LA Times : “ Thousands of apartments set to take over empty office buildings with new L.A. ordinance ” “Changes to the original 1999 ordinance — which was created to incentivize the conversion of underutilized buildings into multifamily housing — include a substantial expansion of eligibility both in a building’s age and location as well as the removal of minimum unit size requirements for these projects,” reports the Los Angeles Business Journal Mayor Karen Bass visited downtown’s World Trade Center building , which is set to be converted into 500 housing units Bass also instituted Executive Directive 19 which streamlines some development On AirTalk this week, Bass told Larry Mantle : “If you want me to describe the culture of the city, I would describe it as 'slow' and 'no'" “Misery and malaise cloud LA Why it feels so hopeless this time,” is the title of Shelby Grad’s piece at the LA Times The vibes were also noted in a recent LA Material newsletter quoting No Bad Days responding to Blackbird Spyplane The Los Angeles County Quality of Life Index is measured every year by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy, and this year, the index was the lowest ever measured

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This episode was published on May 4, 2026.

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