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Housing & Homelessness
The “Community Opportunity to Purchase Act” would give organizations committed to keeping rents low the first chance to make an offer on buildings coming up for sale.
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Across Los Angeles, rent hikes have led to fewer bus and train riders in an example of how California’s housing crisis is also making its transit crisis harder to solve.
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Property tax relief letters, including refund checks, are getting returned because the homes they’re being sent to were destroyed in the fires.
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The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is addressing a shortfall in this year's budget by cutting staff.
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The medical examiner has not yet determined a cause of death. Lucrecia Macias Barajas' family said the encampment where her daughter found her mother's body had been a known problem for many years.
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President Trump has ordered a Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles to house 6,000 homeless vets by 2028, but details are elusive.
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After an audit found the city failed to accurately track its homelessness spending, a federal judge is considering transferring control of that spending from Los Angeles officials to a court-appointed receiver.
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L.A. permitted about 17,000 new homes last year. To keep pace toward its 2029 goals, the city needs to approve more than triple that number each year.
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Local officials have told tenants to sue landlords who refuse to clean post-fire smoke damage. A new lawsuit seeks to require inspections and enforcement.
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The motion, approved Tuesday, looks to fix “data silos” within city agencies.
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Fire officials are asking for more funding as call volumes rise.
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After scathing audits criticizing Los Angeles’ county-city homeless authority, the county is blowing up that joint agency and starting over.
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SB79 would loosen zoning requirements within a half mile of light rail and subway stops.
