Liam Dillon

Covering housing in Los Angeles and California @politico.
DMs open;

[Austin Hughes @austinh___]

house hunting in SF is going great

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

Absolute dismal satisfaction rates for federal, state, local government among LA wildfire survivors in survey released today https://t.co/mgif2UsaYZ

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

New owner of LA's downtown "Graffiti Towers" will remove the graffiti immediately but plans to memorialize it in a coffee table book. https://t.co/ybRzgdMMn2

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

Express written consent??

[Department of Housing and Urban Development @HUDgov]

Under @POTUS, @VP, and @SecretaryTurner, Fraudsters are getting intercepted and tackled at every turn.

First posted on HUD TikTok: https://t.co/AtJTF31sHW

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

@therossg @politico We have 34. We're counting all homes — including ADUs and JADUs — built on properties that had destroyed residential structures.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

Rebuilding in Pacific Palisades and Altadena from the 2025 LA wildfires is close or at to some milestones, per @politico's tracker:

* 148 completed homes
* Almost half of the 9,900 properties with destroyed homes have filed permits to rebuild

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

A very useful resource from @AGRobBonta listing allowable rent increases — including in rent controlled cities — in California next year https://t.co/DPU9DieGjw.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

@JerusalemDemsas trojan horse was a firetrap

[Daniel Miller @DanielNMiller]

The town's worst-kept secret: Many people know that Paramount CEO David Ellison has been quietly working on a bipartisan bill to create a federal film tax incentive program. Coincidentally, while Rob Bonta was delivering his press conference today, Ellison was en route to D.C. with chief legal officer Makan Delrahim for a long-planned dinner with 13 members of the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss advancing the legislation. The dinner, I am told, is being hosted by committee chair Jason Smith as I type this.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

@daveweigel becerra too!

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

Am I wrong that this is Teddy Roosevelt??

[Ruben Vives @LATvives]

Unfounded claims of homeless voter fraud roil L.A. We went to Skid Row for answers
https://t.co/rMcItJYNis

[Daniel Miller @DanielNMiller]

SCOOP: Paramount has accused Netflix of launching a "scorched-earth campaign" against its Warner Bros. purchase in a letter to DOJ obtained by @politico. Paramount is claiming that Netflix is trying to "poison regulators" against the deal. My latest: https://t.co/cjcUTBcea7

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

AP just called the LA mayor's race. It's Bass-Raman in November https://t.co/x3PlvGnTaL

[L.A. Material @LAMaterialNews]

This is the late-night text message Mayor Karen Bass sent Nithya Raman the night before Raman filed to run for mayor. Obtained via a public records request.

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

With @nithyavraman in line to make the mayoral runoff in Los Angeles, take a look at how she and NYC Mayor @ZohranKMamdani are attempting to end the left's civil war over housing — the most important affordability issue in both cities. https://t.co/xC3VrNCfNM

[Richard Winton @LAcrimes]

Nithya Raman surges past Spencer Pratt in L.A. mayor’s race, closing in on runoff with Karen Bass https://t.co/ogyYODWPiU

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

Obviously the Raman-Pratt battle is the headline but it’s also quite significant that Bass’ high-water mark appears to have been the first drop of results where she was over 38%. Now she’s below 35%.

Especially interesting compared to what happened four years ago

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Raman closes in on Pratt as more votes in L.A. mayor's race are tallied https://t.co/DuO8kvOBNl

[Kevin Rector @kevrector]

NEW: There was NOT a batch of L.A. mayor votes with zero votes for Pratt.

But there was a "lag in an automated update" to @AP vote tallies that split the batch and updated Bass & Raman's votes about a minute before updating Pratt's.

Read me @latimes:

https://t.co/oKg1vala3l

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

@FNiculete Lol

[Liam Dillon @dillonliam]

Yes https://t.co/vWc9w52RSi