Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky

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City Councilwoman for Los Angeles City Council District 5. Coalition Builder. Environmental Lawyer. Mom x 3. Official City Account.

Los Angeles, CA councildistrict5.lacity.gov Joined December 2022

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Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky @CD5LosAngeles Apr 28

Big news: when the Metro D Line extension opens May 8, the new stations come to life from day one.

Weekly farmers markets. Coffee carts. Pop-ups. Dance classes. Live music.

More activity means safer stations and a system people want to use. lamaterial.com/p/activate-the…

lamaterial.com Pickleball and salsa lessons: How Metro will 'activate' new D Line stations Plus, unpacking the battle over "zone zero" regulations, Sergey Brin's California departure and more.

Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky @CD5LosAngeles Oct 28

Dolores Huerta taught us that we hold the power to make things better, even against impossible odds.

We lost a giant today, but Dolores’ legacy calls on us to keep believing in what is possible and in one another.

Photo of Dolores Huerta with a Huelga sign

Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky @CD5LosAngeles Sep 24

The City of LA owns billions of dollars of real estate. Some of it sits vacant, but most is just underutilized: one-story maintenance yards, parking lots, low-slung facilities.

We should be following New York’s lead and start putting our land to work.

Mark D. Levine Verified account @MarkLevineNYC Sep 24

An absolutely massive move on housing:

@NYCHousing is demolishing its offices at 100 Gold St., an outdated building from the 1960s, and turning it into *4,000* units of housing. 1,000 units will be permanently affordable.

This is more new housing than some entire cities build in a year.

Project will also include a new senior center, a 40k sq ft gym open to the public, and lots of public realm improvements around the site. HPD will get a new home in a separate, modern building.

This is the kind of big, bold project we need much more of.

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Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky @CD5LosAngeles Sep 21

Let’s take the Metro… to Metro!

As one of the Mayor’s appointees to the Metro Board, it’s important to me that my team and I actually use the system we help oversee.

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Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky @CD5LosAngeles Sep 16

We are living in an economy where people who already own assets keep building wealth while working and middle-class families fall further behind.

In Los Angeles, one reason is simple: we have made the first rung of homeownership (condos/townhomes) incredibly hard to build.