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In Los Angeles, a 49-unit apartment complex is taking 17 years to complete, the result of complex laws that exacerbated California's affordable housing crisis
According to a UCLA and CSU-Northridge analysis of building permits from 2010 to 2022, constructing an apartment building in California took an average of four years during that period. -- Business Insider
Governance Reform Advocates Share Final Recommendations for City of L.A.
The Los Angeles Governance Reform Project (LAGRP), a coalition of academic experts from USC, CSUN, UCLA, Pomona College, among others, held a Zoom meeting to discuss their final recommendations for governance reform. Experts from Catalyst California, Common Cause and other organizations joined the professors to discuss their thoughts on the topic as well. -- MyNewsLA
Developing Opportunities: L.A. County, Cal State System and More
The trustees of the California State University system announced Wednesday that they are seeking statements of qualifications (SOQ) from interested and qualified entities capable of doing a design-build to take part in a competitive request for proposals (RFP) process to construct the Matador Success and Inclusion Center (MSIC) at Cal State Northridge. It will be a new campus building housing the Identity Based Resource Centers, the Ethnic Studies Center for Research, Activism, and Community Empowerment, the Community High Impact Programs group, the Matador Achievement Center, and the Athletics Administration offices. The building will be a standalone structure of roughly 40,000 gross square feet. The RFP will follow submission of an SOQ. Maximum acceptance cost is estimated at $50.8 million, with rounding. -- Industry Insider, Government Technology
Travels with Charles
Back in Kyiv, Charles and I head to the Premier Palace, a historic hotel built in 1912 and a favorite of the rich and famous. Charles has wanted to visit for a long time and regales me with its storied past as we settle into the beautifully panelled cigar lounge and light up. We discuss literature and quote poems back and forth, and Charles tells me about the great writers he has known. He does this utterly without pretence—in fact, the stories seem to crop up by accident. He spoke French to Jack Kerouac at parties at his parents’ house, “a nice enough fellow but perhaps a little forlorn.” His father called Kerouac “Jean-Louis.” He also knew Ray Bradbury quite well—when they first met, he asked the writer about Rudyard Kipling. Bradbury told him that when he’d asked the great Anglo-Irish novelist Lord Dunsany who the greatest English writer of the 20th century was, Dunsany told him Kipling—“and I have never found any reason to disagree with that opinion.” Charles also knew Aldous Huxley’s wife, “bright eyes, a halo of white hair, thick Italian accent,” and met Christopher Isherwood at Cal State Northridge. -- The European Conservative
'General Hospital' Actor Jack Axelrod Dies at 93
Axelrod shared his passion for acting by teaching at various universities such as Penn State, Temple University, Cal State Northridge & Bakersfield, and CalArts. Additionally, he served as a guest instructor at the Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio in Los Angeles.-- Newsmax
#164 California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a public university located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Calif. The nation’s second-largest public master’s university, CSU Northridge’s 353-acre campus boasts a community of nearly 40,000 students. Students at CSU Northridge can choose from more than 100 academic programs across nine colleges, with psychology, radio television broadcast, and criminal justice being among the most popular. -- Forbes Magazine
CSUN Professors Offer Advice on Gift Giving for Kids
In an era where there seem to be endless options when shopping for kids’ toys, California State University, Northridge experts in child development and the dynamics of play are offering advice on holiday shopping this season. -- SCV News
Reform advocates share strategies to fix LA redistricting
The Los Angeles Governance Reform Project is a coalition of academic experts from USC, CSUN, UCLA, Pomona College, among others -- Los Angeles Daily News
Mission Opera performs winter tunes from around the world
Hosted by Mission Opera Executive Director Josh Wentz, the ensemble was a mixture of professional Mission Opera company members, church choir volunteers, and student vocalists from California State University, Northridge, and Los Angeles Mission College. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
Roth, Sánchez Perform for GNC
Nancy Roth, violinist (and violist), is currently the concertmaster of the Culver City Symphony and Marina del Rey Summer Symphony. She is also concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay and a member of the Pasadena Symphony. She is a former member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, was co-principal violist of the Graz Philharmonic in Austria, and served many years as concertmaster of the San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Carson-Dominguez Hills Symphony. She has been a featured soloist with numerous Southern California orchestras including the Culver City Symphony, Carson Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Southland Symphony Orchestra. She has given recitals and radio broadcasts in the United States, Austria and Mexico, and is currently a member of the new music group “TEMPO” based at California State University Northridge. Roth is a member of the String Family Players (quintet), which performs educational programs for the Music Center On Tour, and she has been on the faculty of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute Summer Music Festival. She has played baroque violin and viola with James Tyler in the London Early Music Group and Los Angeles Musica Viva. Roth holds a Bachelor of Music from CSUN, a Master of Music from the Juilliard School and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Southern California. -- Crescenta Valley Weekly