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The court decision Thursday is the latest in an ongoing fight over whether the L.A. region’s lead homeless services agency can access and direct federal dollars.
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Judge rules L.A. illegally tried to change the rules for a program to streamline affordable housing in neighborhoods with single-family homes.
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Voters said no to expanded rent control, but tenants facing evictions will have more time to fight to keep their homes under a new law.
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Public employees often must disclose outside income and gifts to in state-mandated forms. Why aren’t top LA homelessness officials? Out of hundreds of employees, only the CEO currently files, according to an LAist review of records.
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Furry friends are not always welcome in L.A. apartments. Some elected leaders now want to overturn pet bans — but landlords say they exist for good reasons.
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Gov. Newsom launched a program that uses Medi-Cal to help homeless Californians access housing. Trump could end it in 2026.
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A growing number of people — many of them older and homeless — are freezing to death during winter.
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Additionally, less than a fifth of people who did enter interim housing were able to secure permanent housing, which the audit said is “woefully inadequate.”
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The city needs to rezone for more than a quarter-million new homes. Elected leaders decided to block new housing in single-family neighborhoods.
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In recent years, county officials have run into resistance from cities that are reluctant to host shelters.
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The city estimates 7,500 homes are being illegally rented through online booking platforms. Here’s how they plan to crack down before the Olympics.
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California and federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself ”at the expense of renters who pay inflated prices.”
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Many California cities offer their homeless residents one-way bus tickets to other places.
