Okay so check it— your City Hall, man, they're like, always up to something, even when it feels like nothing's happening, ya sabes? And sometimes, it's just little stuff, but it's *our* city, so it matters.

### What LA’s building permits are telling us

So, I was looking through the recent development activity, and it’s, like, kinda wild what passes through. On March 4, 2015, there was a permit filed for a "Bldg-Alter/Repair: SUPPLEMENTAL-TO 13014-10000-04123" for the "ADDITION OF POOL EQUIPMENT ROOM." Seriously, a *pool equipment room*? Meanwhile, on March 5, 2015, another "Bldg-Alter/Repair" permit came through for a "Kitchen/bathroom (2) remodel for residential buildings (no structural)."

Here's why this matters, fam:

* **Priority Check:** We're talking about pool equipment rooms and kitchen remodels. Not, like, affordable housing units or fixes for broken sidewalks in Boyle Heights.

* **Residential Focus:** It's all about residential properties, which, okay, that's good, but it makes you wonder about the *kind* of residential. Is this for big single-family homes on the Westside, or actual apartment buildings?

* **Small Scale:** These are small-scale projects. They don't really move the needle on the big housing crisis, you know? It's like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.

It really just highlights where the focus sometimes is, which isn't always where *we* need it to be. What we gotta watch for is how many permits actually go to, like, building new affordable units, not just remodeling the fancy stuff. That's the real LA, fam — east of the 110.

Marisol Vega-Cisneros, MiTL Sports Desk, East LA.

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