This isn’t about Long Beach, but it’s interesting.
Seems the long-hyped condominium boom in downtown Los Angeles is over, at least for now–the boom is off the rose, you might say (though, clearly, I never would). But the top story on the Los Angeles Times website now covers just that.
According to DataQuick, which monitors real estate [...]

Some of the most interesting parts of last night’s Long Beach City Council discussion of apartment renters’ rights weren’t just the heartrending testimony of disabled tenants who feared being pushed out in the street by future condominium conversions–or the plain speaking from several landlords, one of whom used a phrase you don’t hear much anymore: [...]

The Press-Telegram takes on all you apartment renters
Well, it had to happen; sure as the Long Beach City Council tonight will consider extending–if not an olive branch–then some money and concessions to apartment renters as the city’s stock of rentable apartments falls low, Press-Telegram editorialists gallop the other way.

City Council to debate condo conversions
Those of you who don’t immediately peruse the Long Beach City Council agenda the moment it appears each week might have missed this–but at tomorrow’s 5 p.m. meeting, the Council will consider sticking up for apartment renters.