Capital & Main
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Photojournalist Ted Soqui shares his visual recap of the year in SoCal. -
Amid an affordable housing crisis, dozens of rent-controlled buildings are listed on short-term rental websites. A 2018 law was supposed to stop that, but the city is struggling to enforce it.
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El Sereno residents used grants and their own money to open a store selling healthy foods at affordable prices.
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The Office of the City Attorney says state law allows the evictions.
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Health experts say overdose prevention centers can save lives, but are illegal in most of the U.S. On Los Angeles’ Skid Row, those in need have built their own.
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Twenty-one hotels have been cited so far. If the citations are enforced and upheld in court, hundreds of rooms could be turned back into low-cost permanent housing for the city’s poorest residents.
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Barrington Plaza owner says city-mandated fire safety upgrade is behind more than 500 evictions. City officials say there is no such requirement.
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Ramona Gardens residents decided years ago that their health was not a luxury, and they are pushing for what they deserve.
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A city law sought to prevent low-cost housing from turning into hotels, but some landlords rented to tourists anyway. That didn’t stop them from receiving city funds for a new temporary shelter program.
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An idle well fee program is masking vast cleanup costs while harming residents and the climate.
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