This is for the five county LA region (and Imperial County), San Diego and the Central Coast are separate.

https://scag.ca.gov/news/state-releases-regional-housing-needs-determination-southern-california

For a long time already, us Americans have tended to poke fun of and have very low expectations for cities experiencing chronic decay like Atlantic City and many "down on its luck" small urban centers in Appalachia. Yes, we have very expensive cities like NYC and LA with lots of homeless and people leaving those places. People like to poke fun at them too, and and call them dumpsites. But, they are not what remotely qualifies as "fallen cities". The places that are in real dire straits are what we usually called the "sick folks" in the States, places with actual urban decay, ghost towns, and chronic multi-decade declines in population.

I just wonder if policy thinkers have been looking at the wrong problem for decades with regard to those blighted cities, and that the problem really lies in red tape that prevents progressive outcomes in economic revitalization, like with any other places in America?

Imagine how many of these "sick places" in America could have been constantly rejuvenated had their city councils decided to allow for a lot more commercial and residential real estate to be built, thereby prevented their fall in the first place? It's really worth thinking about. Now, I could be wrong about how much of the policies from very recently developed YIMBY think tanks could have softened their fall. That's why I would like your insight as to if the real problem they faced wasn't actually disruption of economic sectors like in gambling and manufacturing, but rather in an inability to adapt and constantly reinvent itself due to red tape that prevents literal rebuilding of entirely new industries and of new homes for more people to come in.

Lincoln Equities owns the vacant lot on the north side of 18th St between Jersey Ave and Erie St. At last night's JCRA board meeting, they presented a plan for a new Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station between Hoboken and Jersey City.

The station would sit at the end of an extended Erie St., accessibly by a plaza bordered by housing and retail.

The station would be funded by housing on the rest of the lot, which needs changes to the redevelopment plan.

The 20% affordable housing set aside would be paid for by a PILOT and Aspire. NJEDA paused Aspire in July.

So if Aspire isn’t available, the developer can build 10% income-restricted below-market rentals for 1,500 units. The affordable housing in the 10% version will also likely need a PILOT similar to the Embankment.

The 1,200-unit concept has three towers of 30, 36 and 38 stories, with retail at street level.

The plan has 665 parking spaces, about 0.55 per unit. That's high for a site next to a train platform, but the current redevelopment plan requires it.

https://betterblocksnj.org/2026/10/21/new-light-rail-station-proposed-for-jersey-city-hoboken-border/