Ted Rohrlich
Senior Reporter, on-call
(he/him)
I'm a print veteran who recently unretired to join this newsroom part-time. From 1982 to 2009, I was a reporter at the L.A. Times, where I specialized in criminal justice and public corruption investigations.
After that, I was research director for a large Service Employees International local union, an administrative deputy controller for the City of Los Angeles, an independent researcher and writer, and then a retiree who got a bit bored.
I’m the father of two and grandfather of two and volunteer as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate for a foster child.
-
Affordable housing is explicitly exempted from state and local laws that limit the size of rent increases. -
The work is complicated and can be tediously slow. Affordable housing developers have to overcome major hurdles that market rate developers do not.
-
Is it fair to shower the bulk of subsidies for decent affordable housing on one group while the majority of those in need are left with none?
-
I vowed long ago to look into a key program to see how efficient it was — what I found raises significant questions about a major driver of housing for low- and very low-income families in L.A.
-
A 37-year-old tax credit program intended to get private developers to build affordable units has failed in a fundamental way: It's a bargain people still can't afford.
-
From 2010 to 2019, the city lost about 110,000 homes that were considered affordable for low-income households.
-
An expert on homelessness litigation and civic leaders, including one who directed the city’s last charter revision commission, say Caruso's homelessness ignores City Council's authority.
