Aaron Mendelson

In the face of a global pandemic, things are even more challenging for tenants at the bottom rung of the rental market.

Many healthcare workers are worried about not being given appropriate protection or training to help them if they come into contact with a patient with the virus.

As of Thursday afternoon, votes tallied are good for 23% turnout in L.A. and 31% turnout in Orange County and rising as more ballots arrive by mail.

It’ll take time for officials to sort through provisional ballots, write-in votes and even damaged ballots.

Combined with more than half a million votes that the registrar has received through the mail, that would already represent a 13 percent turnout for L.A. County, if all the votes are counted.

"We're talking basically about a slumlord," said George Gascón, former District Attorney of San Francisco.

Challengers in the Los Angeles' District Attorney race sounded off following a KPCC/LAist investigation into landlords PAMA Management and Mike Nijjar, calling for greater scrutiny into the business practices of the real estate and property management empire.

A new bill from Oakland lawmaker Buffy Wicks would track rents, vacancies, ownership and more for landlords with at least 5 units.

The fire came to my attention because the buildings are part of a vast rental empire I wrote about in an investigation we published last week.

The cause of the fire is undetermined. The building is part of a vast rental empire that was the subject of our landlord investigation that published last week.

Campaign contributions are returned, a bill calling for more transparency will be re-introduced in Sacramento.

A Los Angeles city councilmember has returned campaign donations and a state legislator is promising to reintroduce a bill that would shed light on the rental market, following our investigation into a California rental empire.