December 28, 2025 • 32 mins
Fired employees at a local utility say their bosses used security cameras to spy on homeless people having sex outside the office building; L.A.’s rent control ordinance is signed into law but a supportive council member takes a beating on social media; Meanwhile, a new report from USC shows rents in SoCal are expected to keep going up over the next two years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News with you for another
hour in this final Saturday night of twenty twenty five.
This year is coming to an end, a new year looms.
Always loved this time of year. A little confusing between
Christmas and New Years as we maybe get distracted about
what day of the week it is. If you've taken
some time off, I know a lot of people around
here are off the whole time. I'll be back doing
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the news for you next week, in addition to another
live Saturday show the first of twenty twenty six. Looking
forward to that. Thanks to all of you, by the way,
for listening to us here on Saturday nights recapping the
week's news looking ahead to the next week. Something that
caught my eye out of the news this week for
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former controllers at the East LA office of Southern California
Gas Company, they filed a lawsuit again that utility. They
say their managers misused security cameras to watch homeless people
nearby having sex and using drugs. Four of these former
controllers have filed this lawsuit in the LA Superior Court.
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They say that they were fired for retaliation and they
were harassed, and that the company failed to prevent discrimination
and harassment against them. These four are looking for an
unspecified amount of money that they say should compensate them
for emotional distress.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And lost wages.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now, according to this report from our partners at City
News Service, SOCl GAS has not immediately replied for a
request for comment, but the suit says, there's this facility
in East LA that houses some socoal Gas offices and
a control room with a very secured building. It had
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stationary and movable security cameras that monitored activities outside of
this facility in case there were possible threats. Now, according
to the lawsuit, control room employees had access and control
over these cameras, and the plaintiff's supervisor allegedly and a
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couple of other bosses abused this privilege.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Every day.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They would use this camera to zoom in, zooming in
on sexual, vulgar and inappropriate images immediately outside of the facility. Well,
this is Los Angeles, so guess what was going on
outside of that facility.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Almost camp, according to this lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
This example is included in this lawsuit the supervisors zoomed
in on homeless people masturbating on the streets, having sex
in their cars, and using ivy drugs. One of the
plaintiff says that these three bosses had an obsession with
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one particular homeless woman who would camp nearby and would
play images of her sleeping, eating, changing, using drugs, using
the bathroom. And the supervisors also allegedly sexually harassed a
woman controller who was not part of this lawsuit, and
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they dealt with some homophobic remarks as well.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
According to this thing, these.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Plaintiffs complained about their working environment and were fired in
retaliation for doing so in May of last year. That's
according to this lawsuit. Well that's one to watch or
not watch. It has been a very wet week here
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in southern California, torrential rain, a wet Christmas indeed, and
just before the storm started in local officials from La
County and La City were hosting different news conferences. We
heard La County Sheriff Robert Luna say, twenty twenty five
didn't start off that great, and now it's ending with
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this very terrible storm. And the reference to the year
not starting that great was the January wildfires. I mean,
what a year.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That was.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Almost twelve months ago. The wildfires erupted here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Running from fire, entire neighborhoods and lives lost. Winter turned
to summer in southern California in twenty twenty five, only
seven days into the new year. What is normally southern
California is rainy erupted into fire. Incredible ninety mile per
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hour Santa Ana winds and a lack of rain fuel
the fire storm.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think the whole town is going to go.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Two of the most destructive fires broke out nearly simultaneously
in different areas of southern California.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
They would tax resources.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
The Palisades Fire near Malibu and the Eton Fire near
the community of Altadena.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Our hearts are breaking for you and we stand with you.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
The angry flames when racing through heavily populated areas, residents
struggled to get out, some could not. At least thirty
one people died in the flames. Over sixteen thousand buildings
were wiped out.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It was in Gulf of Flames.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
It was so much scary.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, like Stone ab Sinews, Los Angeles, we are about
ten days away from the one year anniversary of the
southern California wildfires, and here at KFI News, we are
putting the final touches on an anniversary special looking at
that day, that week and what has happened since.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It feels like we're learning a lot more about what
started those fires, both the Palisades Fire and the Eaten fire,
and we're learning more about the government response. It's not great,
but all of our news voices that you hear every
day will be part of this special, including our very
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own Brigida da Gastino, who's in the news booth tonight.
So the news team got together to work on this
as a team, and we hope that you will tune
in for it. I think that's going to air on
the seventh, and then it will air again in place
of this show afterwards on Saturday night of January tenth,
so be on the lookout for that as well. I
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hope that if you are out on the roads on
your way home from a lovely Christmas break, that things
are going well for you, but they're not going great
for everybody.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
JFK and LaGuardia. About twenty percent of departures cancel Well,
that's significant for people who are trying to get home
from the holidays, trying to leave out for New Year's
even it might seem like a quiet day, but actually
United Airlines was expecting this today, this Saturday, to be
their busiest day of the holiday travel season, expecting over
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five hundred thousand travelers today alone. So the timing here
for those traveling just really couldn't be worse.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
It all comes right in the middle of the holiday
travel rush, when TSA expects to screen nearly forty five
million people this holiday period. Nationwide, airports are expected to
see major delays, and airlines like United anticipating today will
be their busiest day of all with more than five
hundred thousand expected passengers. Severe weather snarling the holiday travel rush,
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airports packed, and highways jamm from coast to coast.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is wild.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
This is no Christmas miracle.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
It comes as tens of millions are heading home from Christmas,
but already over two thousand cancelations Friday and Saturday. Delta
and Jet Blue are seeing the biggest impacts.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
That powerful winter storm lashing the Northeast with layers of
heavy snow and ice, and western New York snow stagging
up on roads, landing, snow falling on Interstate six't eighty four,
driving treacherous and on Long Island. Heavy snow blanketing northern
National County Philadelphia highways turning to slush. Several crashes reported
as conditions worsen.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Wild weather impacting holiday travel on both coasts, bringing ice
and snow and snarling plans for millions of Americans.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Wows out working to try to keep.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Roads clear in the Late Tapo region, winds gusting up
to one hundred miles per hour, the new snow system
taking aim at the Midwest and northeast.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A winter storm warning issued for parts of the tri
state area.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Triple A says nearly one hundred and ten million people
will drive over the holiday season. That's two percent more
than last year. But while the roads will be more crowded,
drivers will get a gift to the pump. Average gas
price of a gallon nationwide right now is two dollars
and eighty four cents, and that's down twenty cents from
last year.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
At this time.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
If you're headed out this weekend, Transportation Research Group in
Rich says you will have to leave before eleven am
to miss most of that traffic. The worst time to
drive will be around eleven am to eight pm. Cities
like Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Tampa are expected
to have their worst traffic day of the season.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Today, and we are not enjoying those gas prices. You
certainly are bringing up that national average by a lot
here in southern California. In fact, we get updates every
day here in the newsroom about what the average price
is locally, and just today on Saturday, for example, in
Riverside County, the average price of a gallon of self
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serve regular gas went up a tenth of a cent
just today to four dollars and about eighteen cents. So
rest of the nation the average well below three dollars
at this point. Not us, not us. Up Next, the rent.
The rent in the City of Los Angeles has been
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capped in this updated rent Stabilization Ordance. We've talked about
this before, the city council had a robust debate about it,
but now the mayor has signed it into law. But
what I want to talk about is this little Twitter post,
this x post by city Councilman Isabelle Herrado that has
gotten a lot of attention from housing development real estate people.
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They're not happy with what she said or how she
characterized this. There's also a new report that says rents
across southern California are going up for the next two
years at least.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's next on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
There are hundreds of thousands of rental units in the
city of Los Angeles that have a certain amount of
rent that could be charged.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They are capped.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They are part of the rent stabilization Ordinance. Now, for
the first time in decades, the city council decided that
it would make that even stricter. This is a city
council that is driven by folks who would characterize themselves
as pro tenant and they certainly had an earful from landlords,
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property owners, real estate developers who say, if you make
it harder to raise rents in this city, you're going
to cause an even deeper housing shortage. We're not going
to want to own these buildings, and people are certainly
not going to want to build buildings because apparently a
lot of new construction has to take into account rent
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stabilized units. They might have to include some And one
thing I've learned is let's say there's a property that
has four apartments and like a little building with four
apartments and they're all rent stabilized. But a developer says,
I can use that lot better. I can tear down
that building and build something in its place. It has
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twelve apartments in it. Okay, that's good. That adds eight
rental units. That's what the city wants. Apparently all twelve
of those units would have to be rent stabilized. That's
the nature of this ordinance, and so the mayor has
now signed it into law. We talked about it when
the city council voted on it. Had a lot of
sound from that. It was a heated debate, And basically
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what it does, just to recap is it caps the
annual rent increases between one and four percent. It also
can't go higher than ninety percent the rate of inflation
or something along those lines. It's a difficult formula to
fully understand, but it's a lot less than what landlords
think they should be able to raise the.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Rent and the properties at they own.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
After it was signed into law, one of the more
outspoken supporters of the rent stabilization Ordinance councilwoman Isabelle Herado
posted on Twitter this evictions are a modern vestige of
imperialism and conquest. Mass displacement functions like conquest itself, erasing people,
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culture and community dispossession turns residents into tourists in their
own hometowns, never able to return today. Updating rent control
and capping the rent increase was a huge win for
Angelino's because housing stability is anti deplacement policy. So that
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was quite a word full post by the councilwoman who
represents downtown Los Angeles and Northeast LA, and it got
a lot of attention from real estate interests, people that
either represent landlords and court, people who develop properties themselves,
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people who manage properties. They found this statement to be ridiculous, frankly,
and so the councilman responded that this post got more
heat than I expected. And she says, but here's my
Christmas lesson. The doctrine of discovery and conquest is established
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in a landmark Supreme Court case and Undergird's American property law,
from which landlord tenant law is derived. Happy Holidays, you
built the animals again, not always not fully easy to
understand the council woman's point. There, So, a commercial real
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estate advisor named David Evans on X responded to the councilwoman,
you shouldn't be in your position if you're only representing
the interest of renters you and then he names other
city council members. Council Woman Ramen, Councilman Soto Martinez, Councilman
Hernandez are driving away investment in housing in Los Angeles.
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In two years, when the vacancies are absorbed in LA
is back in a housing shortage. The failure of LA
to meet it's our HNA needs will fall on you
and your ideological ally shoulders. Merry Christmas, he says, and
Herado response, it's my job to represent constituencies who don't
have a lobbyist, and this Evans guy responds, BS, they
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have the most effective lobbyist of all you, Councilman Ramen,
Counselman Soto Martinez, Councilman Hernandez, and the tenants rights groups.
Did it ever dawn on you that freezing the rent
could potentially cause harm to both tenants and landlords. Since economics,
he says, isn't your strong suit here? This rent increases
below inflation leads to further disinvestment in housing and further
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deterioration of Los Angeles' aging housing stock all of the time,
where the city is in a housing shortage. If you
don't believe me, speak to housing experts who've seen their
housing stock decline thanks to New York's restrictive rent control policies.
He goes on to say, but I have a feeling
that you won't because the truth about rent control being
a failing program doesn't fit your agenda. Another user named
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Max called the councilwoman a dorc and says, is SB
seventy nine imperialism in conquest too? That's the legislation that
allows for more dense apartment developments near transit stops. That
was controversial here in LA. The mayor was against it,
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most of the council was against it. But Herado responded
to that by saying, it's a faint within a feint
within a feint, but nuance is lost on the internet,
and I don't really know what that means. Merriam Webster
defines a faint fei in t as a mock blow
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or attack on or toward one part in order to
distract attention from the point one really intensive attack. Basically,
I guess faking a left hook and throwing a right jab.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't know. I don't know what she meant.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
She's taking a beating head on Twitter x from pro housing,
pro real estate interest groups. I'm very interested in the
rent control policy here because of how expensive it is
to live in Los Angeles, especially with renting, and it
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may be a supply issue, right, I mean, if there
are more apartments available, then maybe the prices aren't as high,
and it seems like rent control policy is disincentivizing a
lot of parties from investing from wanting to create more
housing here. In fact, there is a new report from
the University of Southern California that says rents in this
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region are going to keep rising over the next two years.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
January sixteenth, to be exact, will mark three years that
I've lived in Los Angeles and it's time for me
to sign my lease again with my apartment, and I'm
going to stay a fourth year there and I'm lucky
because the rent is just going to be the same
and it's been the same the whole time. In fact,
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last year they lowered it fifty bucks. And I know
that's not true for a lot of folks. I'm not
in one of those rent stabilized units that we talked
about last segment. I guess they just they like having
good quality, quiet tenants, and that's one way to keep
you is by not raising the rent. The amount of
rent you pay in southern California is quite an eye
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opener for somebody from the Ihio Valley like me and
from Kentucky. And yes, you could find apartments in the
Cincinnati area where I lived in northern Kentucky for two
or three thousand dollars, but that got you a lot
of apartment and it also wasn't necessary at all. You
could do well for yourself for half that price. And
you come here and you see what's available for fifteen
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hundred dollars, and I'm back home. You'd get a nice
apartment for fifteen hundred bucks here, you don't. I mean,
you can pay almost three thousand dollars a month for
I guess a decent sized apartment.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But it doesn't have to be. It doesn't mean it's updated,
it doesn't mean it's in a nice part of town.
It's shocking.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It takes a while to get used to I'm used
to it now, thank goodness. But it's a lot, and
I know that's true all across Southern California. It costs
a lot to live here. There are many reasons for that.
One is the demand. You know, this is a gorgeous
place to live, so it makes sense that it costs
more on a very basic level, but there are policy
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choices that also make the cost of living go up.
The University of Southern California has released a study and
they expect that the housing shortage will continue and that
will make rent increases continue for the next two years.
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The Cast in Real Estate Economics forecast released by the
USC Lusk Center for Real Estate indicates that vacancy rates
remain low at rental properties across the region, hovering around
five percent in La County and four percent in Orange County.
This forecast notes that rent rose by just a half
percent in La County this year, settling on an average
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of two thousand, three hundred and thirty six dollars. As
of October, the vacancy rate was listed at five point
thirty seven percent of as of October. The authors of
this report say that the average rent will rise by
zero point sixty four percent over each of the next
two years, reaching an average rent of twenty three hundred
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and fifty dollars by October twenty twenty seven. In Orange County,
they say the average rent will go from two thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars with the vacancy rate
of three point eight four percent to twy eight hundred
and fifty nine dollars by October of twenty twenty seven,
with a higher vacancy rate four point two one percent,
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So the average rate by October of twenty twenty seven
in Orange County twenty eight to fifty nine, and in
La County they expect it to be twenty three to fifty. Now,
if you're not in one of those rent controlled units
that the City of Los Angeles in particular is so
keen on protecting, then there is no protection. But these
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rent control policies, according to real estate developers property managers
those sorts, it will keep the supply low. The goal
is to build more apartments, have more supply, and that
should lower the price.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It has been a year.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
In the national economy as well.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
A US economy that's either booming or on the brink
of collapse. The twenty twenty five economic picture can be
summarized in one word, tariffs. In March, President Trump announced
a plan to impose steep new fees on imported steel
and aluminum, setting off trade disputes over countless items from
nearly one hundred countries. By midyear, Trump was comfortable declaring victory.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Energy is down, we have interest rates are down.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
Everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Other indicators are less convincing, says the University of Michigan
economics and public policy professor Justin Wolfers.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
We've now got unemployment almost up to four and a
half percent, the highest rate in four and a half year.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
Is Trump's other major policy initiative has been an immigration crackdown,
with the result he says that we have.
Speaker 13 (22:59):
Strong boder now, we have a great economy.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
But Wolfers is concerned going into twenty twenty.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
Six, next year's economy is going to see the tariffs hit,
and it's going to see an enormous slowdown in immigration
and in population growth.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
And that could help to determine whether a recession is
on the way. Jim Roly in ABC News.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's the weirdest economy because there have been predictions that
catastrophe looms because of tariff policy, or trade agreements, or
trade wars, or political rhetoric from the White House. And
that is why every month on this program, I bring
you the numbers from the ports of Long Beach and
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Los Angeles. You know, typically in typical years, those reports
that come out every month, they're just boring. But these
are important parts of our economy, so it is important
to share that information with you, I feel like, but
it's been more important this year because of the tariff
policy from the Trump administration. And there were times in
these reports where you would hear port officials say, you know,
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the numbers are high right now, that the number of
shipments coming in are high right now because retailers are
trying to get ahead of the tariffs, and that by
the time Christmas rolls around, we might not have a
lot of inventory. So Christmas came and it didn't seem
like there was a shortage of anything. And I'm holding
the reports from the Port of Los Angeles and the
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Port of Long Beach, and they've both had record years
and unlike some of the other months, during the news
conferences or reading the news releases from these ports, they're
not qualifying that news. They've been busy, they've had record years.
Are not qualifying it was saying it's only busy right now,
it's going to be bad next year. We're just saying
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this was one of the busiest years they've ever had.
The Port of Long Beach says it will be its
busiest year ever. Port of La says it will process
ten million cargo unit this year, only the third time
that it's done it, very very busy years. So I
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don't know what to make of the economy, because we
even heard in that report there from ABC News that
the threat of recession isn't over.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But like the stock market looks good, I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I do feel like the grocery bill is a little
higher than I like coffee in particular, I'm a big
coffee drinker, and that price is definitely higher than it
was a year ago. But I don't know how to
break down the economy for you. I'm not that kind
of journalist. I'm you know, I can report what people say,
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ask some intelligent questions, I suppose, But I.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Don't know what to make of it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
We got one more segment left on this final show
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I hope you'll stick around.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Just a few minutes left together before the clock hits
nine o'clock and we finish our final broadcast of Michael
Monks Reports of twenty twenty five. We'll be back again
next Saturday for the first one of twenty twenty six.
So grateful for all of you who do tune in
for this weekly look at the news, and who join
us on the talkbacks and send us emails and messages.
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You've been very supportive this year, and we really really
do appreciate it. It's been a heck of a year.
When you think back to January, we were on fire
and here we end the year soak and wet. It's
been a year to remember, that's for sure, and a
year that will continue to search for answers about, especially
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about those fires. We also lost some people of note
this year, and here are some of them.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
In twenty twenty five we said goodbye and many notable
figures from politics, entertainment, sports and religion, A mighty Pope
Francis passed away on April twenty first Easter Monday, at
the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You should not have to compete against a foreigner.
Speaker 14 (27:13):
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a
speaking event on a college campus.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Since September big support of the enhanced interrogation technique well.
Speaker 14 (27:20):
Former Vice President Dick Cheney died in November after a
battle with pneumonia. The film world started twenty twenty five
by morning the death of groundbreaking director David Lynch.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I shot him on a shuttle a Grand Central no One.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Later in the year, moviegoers marked the passing of Gene Hackman,
Val Kilmer, Diane Keaton, and Robert Redford. Sports legends Hulk
Cogan and George Foreman died this year. The science community
remembered the legacy of primatologist Jane Goodall. Music fan said
goodbye to the Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, and turned
up God only Knows in honor of Beach Boys frontman
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Bryan Wilson Mike Debuski ABC News New York.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That report was filed on December twelfth. I collected some
of these year end retrospectives from our partners at ABC
News to share with you on this last broadcast of
the year, and it was filed ahead of the tragedies
that happened here in Brentwood. Not long after that, the
brutal murders of actor and director Rob Reiner, who was
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seventy eight, and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, who was
seventy years old, murdered inside their home in Brentwood. Their
own son, Nick Reiner, charged with stabbing them both to death.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And that is.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's just a horrifying way to end this year.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It becomes a national story because of their celebrity status,
but it's local here. This happened in our town, and
it happened in a year that was already very, very
challenging because of what happened at the beginning of it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I think it's important to.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
End this.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
On a positive note, and I think that this year
did bring some good things right. And perhaps the best
thing for Los Angeles.
Speaker 13 (29:17):
Was this ANDEO two swinging a broken bat roller out
to short that's.
Speaker 11 (29:21):
Up with it steps out second five, the first and
it's a double play, and the Dodgers have won it
here in eleven the Dodgers turned the double play and
finish off the.
Speaker 13 (29:34):
Jase five for the final. The Dodgers repeat champions for
the first time in baseball in twenty five years.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
We just kept fighting, and you know, guys stept up
big so I could just go on and on about
you know, the big plays, the big performances, and you know,
this is one of the greatest games I've ever been
a part of.
Speaker 11 (30:00):
It was like a roller coaster and I was like
up and down, but it was very nerve wracking.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I mean, it was just two good teams that'll know,
break through the bigger those unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
There will never be another follower game like that in
my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I can't believe that I was here for all that
suffer through.
Speaker 13 (30:16):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Well, there you go, the Dodgers, of course, winning back
to back World Series titles and looking like they're going
to be serious contenders for a three peat next year.
So we had that in twenty twenty five if nothing else,
And I know that was exciting for a lot of
you folks here in LA I hope that as you
look forward to twenty twenty six, you're field with positivity
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and optimism. You set some good resolutions for yourself I
love New Year's It is my favorite holiday because of
the idea of a new start, the freshness that it
offers that if you had a rough year, you can
dust it off your shoulders and start thinking about what's
next for you. I love a good resolution. I didn't
keep mine last year. I know, we talked about it
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here on the air. I had Brigitta there, I had
Oliver wasn't here at the time. He's here now as
our technical director. But I said I was going to
start posting on social media more and I didn't. So
that is going to be another one of my resolutions
for the upcoming year. So please give me a follow
and hold me to that. I am on all of
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a few minutes and then you think, God, everyone is
just so mean. But that's not true. There are a
lot of people bring a lot of joy or share
good information. There are some bad actors on social but
I'm going to get over that. I'm going to post
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again next week for the first edition of Michael Monks's
Reports of twenty twenty six. My thanks to Brigitta Degasino
in the KFI newsroom and Oliver Boone, our technical director,
and thanks to all of you for listening to this
edition of Michael Monk's Reports
Speaker 1 (32:21):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I'm Michael Monks from KFI News with you for another
hour in this final Saturday night of twenty twenty five.
This year is coming to an end, a new year looms.
Always loved this time of year. A little confusing between
Christmas and New Years as we maybe get distracted about
what day of the week it is. If you've taken
some time off, I know a lot of people around
here are off the whole time. I'll be back doing
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the news for you next week, in addition to another
live Saturday show the first of twenty twenty six. Looking
forward to that. Thanks to all of you, by the way,
for listening to us here on Saturday nights recapping the
week's news looking ahead to the next week. Something that
caught my eye out of the news this week for
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former controllers at the East LA office of Southern California
Gas Company, they filed a lawsuit again that utility. They
say their managers misused security cameras to watch homeless people
nearby having sex and using drugs. Four of these former
controllers have filed this lawsuit in the LA Superior Court.
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They say that they were fired for retaliation and they
were harassed, and that the company failed to prevent discrimination
and harassment against them. These four are looking for an
unspecified amount of money that they say should compensate them
for emotional distress.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And lost wages.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Now, according to this report from our partners at City
News Service, SOCl GAS has not immediately replied for a
request for comment, but the suit says, there's this facility
in East LA that houses some socoal Gas offices and
a control room with a very secured building. It had
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stationary and movable security cameras that monitored activities outside of
this facility in case there were possible threats. Now, according
to the lawsuit, control room employees had access and control
over these cameras, and the plaintiff's supervisor allegedly and a
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couple of other bosses abused this privilege.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Every day.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
They would use this camera to zoom in, zooming in
on sexual, vulgar and inappropriate images immediately outside of the facility. Well,
this is Los Angeles, so guess what was going on
outside of that facility.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Almost camp, according to this lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
This example is included in this lawsuit the supervisors zoomed
in on homeless people masturbating on the streets, having sex
in their cars, and using ivy drugs. One of the
plaintiff says that these three bosses had an obsession with
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one particular homeless woman who would camp nearby and would
play images of her sleeping, eating, changing, using drugs, using
the bathroom. And the supervisors also allegedly sexually harassed a
woman controller who was not part of this lawsuit, and
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they dealt with some homophobic remarks as well.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
According to this thing, these.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Plaintiffs complained about their working environment and were fired in
retaliation for doing so in May of last year. That's
according to this lawsuit. Well that's one to watch or
not watch. It has been a very wet week here
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in southern California, torrential rain, a wet Christmas indeed, and
just before the storm started in local officials from La
County and La City were hosting different news conferences. We
heard La County Sheriff Robert Luna say, twenty twenty five
didn't start off that great, and now it's ending with
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this very terrible storm. And the reference to the year
not starting that great was the January wildfires. I mean,
what a year.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
That was.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Almost twelve months ago. The wildfires erupted here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Running from fire, entire neighborhoods and lives lost. Winter turned
to summer in southern California in twenty twenty five, only
seven days into the new year. What is normally southern
California is rainy erupted into fire. Incredible ninety mile per
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hour Santa Ana winds and a lack of rain fuel
the fire storm.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I think the whole town is going to go.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Two of the most destructive fires broke out nearly simultaneously
in different areas of southern California.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
They would tax resources.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
The Palisades Fire near Malibu and the Eton Fire near
the community of Altadena.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Our hearts are breaking for you and we stand with you.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
The angry flames when racing through heavily populated areas, residents
struggled to get out, some could not. At least thirty
one people died in the flames. Over sixteen thousand buildings
were wiped out.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I've never seen anything like that.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It was in Gulf of Flames.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
It was so much scary.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, like Stone ab Sinews, Los Angeles, we are about
ten days away from the one year anniversary of the
southern California wildfires, and here at KFI News, we are
putting the final touches on an anniversary special looking at
that day, that week and what has happened since.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It feels like we're learning a lot more about what
started those fires, both the Palisades Fire and the Eaten fire,
and we're learning more about the government response. It's not great,
but all of our news voices that you hear every
day will be part of this special, including our very
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own Brigida da Gastino, who's in the news booth tonight.
So the news team got together to work on this
as a team, and we hope that you will tune
in for it. I think that's going to air on
the seventh, and then it will air again in place
of this show afterwards on Saturday night of January tenth,
so be on the lookout for that as well. I
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hope that if you are out on the roads on
your way home from a lovely Christmas break, that things
are going well for you, but they're not going great
for everybody.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
JFK and LaGuardia. About twenty percent of departures cancel Well,
that's significant for people who are trying to get home
from the holidays, trying to leave out for New Year's
even it might seem like a quiet day, but actually
United Airlines was expecting this today, this Saturday, to be
their busiest day of the holiday travel season, expecting over
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five hundred thousand travelers today alone. So the timing here
for those traveling just really couldn't be worse.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
It all comes right in the middle of the holiday
travel rush, when TSA expects to screen nearly forty five
million people this holiday period. Nationwide, airports are expected to
see major delays, and airlines like United anticipating today will
be their busiest day of all with more than five
hundred thousand expected passengers. Severe weather snarling the holiday travel rush,
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airports packed, and highways jamm from coast to coast.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
This is wild.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
This is no Christmas miracle.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
It comes as tens of millions are heading home from Christmas,
but already over two thousand cancelations Friday and Saturday. Delta
and Jet Blue are seeing the biggest impacts.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
That powerful winter storm lashing the Northeast with layers of
heavy snow and ice, and western New York snow stagging
up on roads, landing, snow falling on Interstate six't eighty four,
driving treacherous and on Long Island. Heavy snow blanketing northern
National County Philadelphia highways turning to slush. Several crashes reported
as conditions worsen.
Speaker 9 (08:25):
Wild weather impacting holiday travel on both coasts, bringing ice
and snow and snarling plans for millions of Americans.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Wows out working to try to keep.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
Roads clear in the Late Tapo region, winds gusting up
to one hundred miles per hour, the new snow system
taking aim at the Midwest and northeast.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
A winter storm warning issued for parts of the tri
state area.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Triple A says nearly one hundred and ten million people
will drive over the holiday season. That's two percent more
than last year. But while the roads will be more crowded,
drivers will get a gift to the pump. Average gas
price of a gallon nationwide right now is two dollars
and eighty four cents, and that's down twenty cents from
last year.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
At this time.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
If you're headed out this weekend, Transportation Research Group in
Rich says you will have to leave before eleven am
to miss most of that traffic. The worst time to
drive will be around eleven am to eight pm. Cities
like Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Tampa are expected
to have their worst traffic day of the season.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Today, and we are not enjoying those gas prices. You
certainly are bringing up that national average by a lot
here in southern California. In fact, we get updates every
day here in the newsroom about what the average price
is locally, and just today on Saturday, for example, in
Riverside County, the average price of a gallon of self
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serve regular gas went up a tenth of a cent
just today to four dollars and about eighteen cents. So
rest of the nation the average well below three dollars
at this point. Not us, not us. Up Next, the rent.
The rent in the City of Los Angeles has been
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capped in this updated rent Stabilization Ordance. We've talked about
this before, the city council had a robust debate about it,
but now the mayor has signed it into law. But
what I want to talk about is this little Twitter post,
this x post by city Councilman Isabelle Herrado that has
gotten a lot of attention from housing development real estate people.
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They're not happy with what she said or how she
characterized this. There's also a new report that says rents
across southern California are going up for the next two
years at least.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's next on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
There are hundreds of thousands of rental units in the
city of Los Angeles that have a certain amount of
rent that could be charged.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
They are capped.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They are part of the rent stabilization Ordinance. Now, for
the first time in decades, the city council decided that
it would make that even stricter. This is a city
council that is driven by folks who would characterize themselves
as pro tenant and they certainly had an earful from landlords,
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property owners, real estate developers who say, if you make
it harder to raise rents in this city, you're going
to cause an even deeper housing shortage. We're not going
to want to own these buildings, and people are certainly
not going to want to build buildings because apparently a
lot of new construction has to take into account rent
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stabilized units. They might have to include some And one
thing I've learned is let's say there's a property that
has four apartments and like a little building with four
apartments and they're all rent stabilized. But a developer says,
I can use that lot better. I can tear down
that building and build something in its place. It has
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twelve apartments in it. Okay, that's good. That adds eight
rental units. That's what the city wants. Apparently all twelve
of those units would have to be rent stabilized. That's
the nature of this ordinance, and so the mayor has
now signed it into law. We talked about it when
the city council voted on it. Had a lot of
sound from that. It was a heated debate, And basically
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what it does, just to recap is it caps the
annual rent increases between one and four percent. It also
can't go higher than ninety percent the rate of inflation
or something along those lines. It's a difficult formula to
fully understand, but it's a lot less than what landlords
think they should be able to raise the.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Rent and the properties at they own.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
After it was signed into law, one of the more
outspoken supporters of the rent stabilization Ordinance councilwoman Isabelle Herado
posted on Twitter this evictions are a modern vestige of
imperialism and conquest. Mass displacement functions like conquest itself, erasing people,
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culture and community dispossession turns residents into tourists in their
own hometowns, never able to return today. Updating rent control
and capping the rent increase was a huge win for
Angelino's because housing stability is anti deplacement policy. So that
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was quite a word full post by the councilwoman who
represents downtown Los Angeles and Northeast LA, and it got
a lot of attention from real estate interests, people that
either represent landlords and court, people who develop properties themselves,
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people who manage properties. They found this statement to be ridiculous, frankly,
and so the councilman responded that this post got more
heat than I expected. And she says, but here's my
Christmas lesson. The doctrine of discovery and conquest is established
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in a landmark Supreme Court case and Undergird's American property law,
from which landlord tenant law is derived. Happy Holidays, you
built the animals again, not always not fully easy to
understand the council woman's point. There, So, a commercial real
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estate advisor named David Evans on X responded to the councilwoman,
you shouldn't be in your position if you're only representing
the interest of renters you and then he names other
city council members. Council Woman Ramen, Councilman Soto Martinez, Councilman
Hernandez are driving away investment in housing in Los Angeles.
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In two years, when the vacancies are absorbed in LA
is back in a housing shortage. The failure of LA
to meet it's our HNA needs will fall on you
and your ideological ally shoulders. Merry Christmas, he says, and
Herado response, it's my job to represent constituencies who don't
have a lobbyist, and this Evans guy responds, BS, they
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have the most effective lobbyist of all you, Councilman Ramen,
Counselman Soto Martinez, Councilman Hernandez, and the tenants rights groups.
Did it ever dawn on you that freezing the rent
could potentially cause harm to both tenants and landlords. Since economics,
he says, isn't your strong suit here? This rent increases
below inflation leads to further disinvestment in housing and further
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deterioration of Los Angeles' aging housing stock all of the time,
where the city is in a housing shortage. If you
don't believe me, speak to housing experts who've seen their
housing stock decline thanks to New York's restrictive rent control policies.
He goes on to say, but I have a feeling
that you won't because the truth about rent control being
a failing program doesn't fit your agenda. Another user named
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Max called the councilwoman a dorc and says, is SB
seventy nine imperialism in conquest too? That's the legislation that
allows for more dense apartment developments near transit stops. That
was controversial here in LA. The mayor was against it,
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most of the council was against it. But Herado responded
to that by saying, it's a faint within a feint
within a feint, but nuance is lost on the internet,
and I don't really know what that means. Merriam Webster
defines a faint fei in t as a mock blow
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or attack on or toward one part in order to
distract attention from the point one really intensive attack. Basically,
I guess faking a left hook and throwing a right jab.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I don't know. I don't know what she meant.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
She's taking a beating head on Twitter x from pro housing,
pro real estate interest groups. I'm very interested in the
rent control policy here because of how expensive it is
to live in Los Angeles, especially with renting, and it
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may be a supply issue, right, I mean, if there
are more apartments available, then maybe the prices aren't as high,
and it seems like rent control policy is disincentivizing a
lot of parties from investing from wanting to create more
housing here. In fact, there is a new report from
the University of Southern California that says rents in this
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region are going to keep rising over the next two years.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
We'll get into that next.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
January sixteenth, to be exact, will mark three years that
I've lived in Los Angeles and it's time for me
to sign my lease again with my apartment, and I'm
going to stay a fourth year there and I'm lucky
because the rent is just going to be the same
and it's been the same the whole time. In fact,
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last year they lowered it fifty bucks. And I know
that's not true for a lot of folks. I'm not
in one of those rent stabilized units that we talked
about last segment. I guess they just they like having
good quality, quiet tenants, and that's one way to keep
you is by not raising the rent. The amount of
rent you pay in southern California is quite an eye
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opener for somebody from the Ihio Valley like me and
from Kentucky. And yes, you could find apartments in the
Cincinnati area where I lived in northern Kentucky for two
or three thousand dollars, but that got you a lot
of apartment and it also wasn't necessary at all. You
could do well for yourself for half that price. And
you come here and you see what's available for fifteen
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hundred dollars, and I'm back home. You'd get a nice
apartment for fifteen hundred bucks here, you don't. I mean,
you can pay almost three thousand dollars a month for
I guess a decent sized apartment.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But it doesn't have to be. It doesn't mean it's updated,
it doesn't mean it's in a nice part of town.
It's shocking.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
It takes a while to get used to I'm used
to it now, thank goodness. But it's a lot, and
I know that's true all across Southern California. It costs
a lot to live here. There are many reasons for that.
One is the demand. You know, this is a gorgeous
place to live, so it makes sense that it costs
more on a very basic level, but there are policy
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choices that also make the cost of living go up.
The University of Southern California has released a study and
they expect that the housing shortage will continue and that
will make rent increases continue for the next two years.
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The Cast in Real Estate Economics forecast released by the
USC Lusk Center for Real Estate indicates that vacancy rates
remain low at rental properties across the region, hovering around
five percent in La County and four percent in Orange County.
This forecast notes that rent rose by just a half
percent in La County this year, settling on an average
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of two thousand, three hundred and thirty six dollars. As
of October, the vacancy rate was listed at five point
thirty seven percent of as of October. The authors of
this report say that the average rent will rise by
zero point sixty four percent over each of the next
two years, reaching an average rent of twenty three hundred
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and fifty dollars by October twenty twenty seven. In Orange County,
they say the average rent will go from two thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars with the vacancy rate
of three point eight four percent to twy eight hundred
and fifty nine dollars by October of twenty twenty seven,
with a higher vacancy rate four point two one percent,
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So the average rate by October of twenty twenty seven
in Orange County twenty eight to fifty nine, and in
La County they expect it to be twenty three to fifty. Now,
if you're not in one of those rent controlled units
that the City of Los Angeles in particular is so
keen on protecting, then there is no protection. But these
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rent control policies, according to real estate developers property managers
those sorts, it will keep the supply low. The goal
is to build more apartments, have more supply, and that
should lower the price.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
It has been a year.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
In the national economy as well.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
A US economy that's either booming or on the brink
of collapse. The twenty twenty five economic picture can be
summarized in one word, tariffs. In March, President Trump announced
a plan to impose steep new fees on imported steel
and aluminum, setting off trade disputes over countless items from
nearly one hundred countries. By midyear, Trump was comfortable declaring victory.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Energy is down, we have interest rates are down.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
Everything is down at levels that nobody ever thought possible.
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Other indicators are less convincing, says the University of Michigan
economics and public policy professor Justin Wolfers.
Speaker 12 (22:48):
We've now got unemployment almost up to four and a
half percent, the highest rate in four and a half year.
Speaker 10 (22:53):
Is Trump's other major policy initiative has been an immigration crackdown,
with the result he says that we have.
Speaker 13 (22:59):
Strong boder now, we have a great economy.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
But Wolfers is concerned going into twenty twenty.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
Six, next year's economy is going to see the tariffs hit,
and it's going to see an enormous slowdown in immigration
and in population growth.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
And that could help to determine whether a recession is
on the way. Jim Roly in ABC News.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
It's the weirdest economy because there have been predictions that
catastrophe looms because of tariff policy, or trade agreements, or
trade wars, or political rhetoric from the White House. And
that is why every month on this program, I bring
you the numbers from the ports of Long Beach and
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Los Angeles. You know, typically in typical years, those reports
that come out every month, they're just boring. But these
are important parts of our economy, so it is important
to share that information with you, I feel like, but
it's been more important this year because of the tariff
policy from the Trump administration. And there were times in
these reports where you would hear port officials say, you know,
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the numbers are high right now, that the number of
shipments coming in are high right now because retailers are
trying to get ahead of the tariffs, and that by
the time Christmas rolls around, we might not have a
lot of inventory. So Christmas came and it didn't seem
like there was a shortage of anything. And I'm holding
the reports from the Port of Los Angeles and the
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Port of Long Beach, and they've both had record years
and unlike some of the other months, during the news
conferences or reading the news releases from these ports, they're
not qualifying that news. They've been busy, they've had record years.
Are not qualifying it was saying it's only busy right now,
it's going to be bad next year. We're just saying
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this was one of the busiest years they've ever had.
The Port of Long Beach says it will be its
busiest year ever. Port of La says it will process
ten million cargo unit this year, only the third time
that it's done it, very very busy years. So I
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don't know what to make of the economy, because we
even heard in that report there from ABC News that
the threat of recession isn't over.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
But like the stock market looks good, I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I do feel like the grocery bill is a little
higher than I like coffee in particular, I'm a big
coffee drinker, and that price is definitely higher than it
was a year ago. But I don't know how to
break down the economy for you. I'm not that kind
of journalist. I'm you know, I can report what people say,
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ask some intelligent questions, I suppose, But I.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Don't know what to make of it.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
We got one more segment left on this final show
of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I hope you'll stick around.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Just a few minutes left together before the clock hits
nine o'clock and we finish our final broadcast of Michael
Monks Reports of twenty twenty five. We'll be back again
next Saturday for the first one of twenty twenty six.
So grateful for all of you who do tune in
for this weekly look at the news, and who join
us on the talkbacks and send us emails and messages.
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You've been very supportive this year, and we really really
do appreciate it. It's been a heck of a year.
When you think back to January, we were on fire
and here we end the year soak and wet. It's
been a year to remember, that's for sure, and a
year that will continue to search for answers about, especially
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about those fires. We also lost some people of note
this year, and here are some of them.
Speaker 14 (26:57):
In twenty twenty five we said goodbye and many notable
figures from politics, entertainment, sports and religion, A mighty Pope
Francis passed away on April twenty first Easter Monday, at
the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You should not have to compete against a foreigner.
Speaker 14 (27:13):
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at a
speaking event on a college campus.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Since September big support of the enhanced interrogation technique well.
Speaker 14 (27:20):
Former Vice President Dick Cheney died in November after a
battle with pneumonia. The film world started twenty twenty five
by morning the death of groundbreaking director David Lynch.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I shot him on a shuttle a Grand Central no One.
Speaker 14 (27:32):
Later in the year, moviegoers marked the passing of Gene Hackman,
Val Kilmer, Diane Keaton, and Robert Redford. Sports legends Hulk
Cogan and George Foreman died this year. The science community
remembered the legacy of primatologist Jane Goodall. Music fan said
goodbye to the Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne, and turned
up God only Knows in honor of Beach Boys frontman
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Bryan Wilson Mike Debuski ABC News New York.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
That report was filed on December twelfth. I collected some
of these year end retrospectives from our partners at ABC
News to share with you on this last broadcast of
the year, and it was filed ahead of the tragedies
that happened here in Brentwood. Not long after that, the
brutal murders of actor and director Rob Reiner, who was
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seventy eight, and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner, who was
seventy years old, murdered inside their home in Brentwood. Their
own son, Nick Reiner, charged with stabbing them both to death.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
And that is.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's just a horrifying way to end this year.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
It becomes a national story because of their celebrity status,
but it's local here. This happened in our town, and
it happened in a year that was already very, very
challenging because of what happened at the beginning of it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I think it's important to.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
End this.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
On a positive note, and I think that this year
did bring some good things right. And perhaps the best
thing for Los Angeles.
Speaker 13 (29:17):
Was this ANDEO two swinging a broken bat roller out
to short that's.
Speaker 11 (29:21):
Up with it steps out second five, the first and
it's a double play, and the Dodgers have won it
here in eleven the Dodgers turned the double play and
finish off the.
Speaker 13 (29:34):
Jase five for the final. The Dodgers repeat champions for
the first time in baseball in twenty five years.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
We just kept fighting, and you know, guys stept up
big so I could just go on and on about
you know, the big plays, the big performances, and you know,
this is one of the greatest games I've ever been
a part of.
Speaker 11 (30:00):
It was like a roller coaster and I was like
up and down, but it was very nerve wracking.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
I mean, it was just two good teams that'll know,
break through the bigger those unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
There will never be another follower game like that in
my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I can't believe that I was here for all that
suffer through.
Speaker 13 (30:16):
All of that.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Well, there you go, the Dodgers, of course, winning back
to back World Series titles and looking like they're going
to be serious contenders for a three peat next year.
So we had that in twenty twenty five if nothing else,
And I know that was exciting for a lot of
you folks here in LA I hope that as you
look forward to twenty twenty six, you're field with positivity
(30:40):
and optimism. You set some good resolutions for yourself I
love New Year's It is my favorite holiday because of
the idea of a new start, the freshness that it
offers that if you had a rough year, you can
dust it off your shoulders and start thinking about what's
next for you. I love a good resolution. I didn't
keep mine last year. I know, we talked about it
(31:02):
here on the air. I had Brigitta there, I had
Oliver wasn't here at the time. He's here now as
our technical director. But I said I was going to
start posting on social media more and I didn't. So
that is going to be another one of my resolutions
for the upcoming year. So please give me a follow
and hold me to that. I am on all of
the social channels at Mike Monk's LA, m I C,
(31:23):
M O, NKS LA. I have a lot of videos
that I want to post. I just you scroll for
a few minutes and then you think, God, everyone is
just so mean. But that's not true. There are a
lot of people bring a lot of joy or share
good information. There are some bad actors on social but
I'm going to get over that. I'm going to post
(31:45):
I lied last year. I'm telling the truth this year.
I'm going to post and it would be helpful if
you interacted with it, so install TikTok X. It's all
the same handle Mike Monk's LA m I C M
O nks L A. Hope to see you on there,
love knowing that you're listening to us here. Join us
(32:06):
again next week for the first edition of Michael Monks's
Reports of twenty twenty six. My thanks to Brigitta Degasino
in the KFI newsroom and Oliver Boone, our technical director,
and thanks to all of you for listening to this
edition of Michael Monk's Reports
Speaker 1 (32:21):
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