It’s quite true, what Los Angeles union officials are saying in the runup to the Summer Olympic Games that will be held here in 2028 — organizers in cities around the globe have often failed to produce lasting benefits for citizens of those cities and regions in years past, and have even left debts for local governments to pay.
That’s certainly not what happened after the L.A. Olympic Games of 1984, though, the last time they were held here. All these 40 years later, through the LA84 Foundation, those games literally still provide lasting benefits to the Southland, as they were so successful they had a financial surplus of over $200 million that still provides funding for youth sports in the region. And unlike many prior Olympics, they to great extent used existing infrastructure — including the still-vital Memorial Coliseum itself, built for the 1932 Olympic Games — instead of building boondoggle stadiums that soon fall out of use. Thousands of trees were planted; streets were cleaned up, and we don’t just mean in homeless sweeps; even the signage was cheap, good-looking, recyclable.
So, while financial vigilance still needs to be maintained, L.A. ‘28 has a great model in L.A. ‘84.
But local union leaders say they are worried their members won’t benefit from the influx of visitors, and last week demanded swift action — some of it in the nice-idea mode, some of it absurd and financially capricious.
Build 50,000 new units of housing? We’re all for that, but don’t understand why it’s the Olympics’ responsibility. But just because hotels are unionized, the leaders want Airbnbs and other short-term rentals banned, a terrible idea that would be ruinous to many local families. Plus, there are enough hotel rooms in the region for about 174,000 people on a given day; some 575,000 daily visitors are expected for the Olympics. Where are those people supposed to bunk, unions? (In the city of Los Angeles alone, $1.2 billion in annual tax revenue comes from short-term rentals.)
Jacie Prieto Lopez of LA28 said the Olympics “will mean good-paying jobs and real opportunities for working people in Los Angeles, including benefits that reach the neighborhoods and families who keep this city running.” The logistical hurdles are tall as the high hurdles on the Coliseum track. But L.A. can leap them.
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