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Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.
A scholar uncovers her family’s story, and America’s.
Add shaky planes, weather delays and cancellations to our new reality under unfriendly warming skies.
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.
Low-income neighborhoods are often dangerously hotter than wealthier areas. At “resilience hubs” there is shelter to survive, with programming for communities to thrive.
The legislation would overhaul the process to appeal denials of coverage by private health insurance companies.
When the American Hotel converted into a tourist hotel, its long-term residents lost not just their affordable housing but the creative community that long thrived in the iconic building.
Following a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation, which found that buildings meant for housing are instead being rented to tourists, the mayor’s office asked for a review.
Developers tout hydrogen as a clean energy source; Navajo opponents say it is another way outsiders will profit by harming their environment and health.
Despite recent wins, union members still can’t afford to live anywhere near where they work.
Fifteen years ago, Los Angeles passed a law to preserve residential hotels as housing of last resort. Now, amid the homelessness crisis, some hotels may be violating that law by offering rooms to tourists.
From California to Pennsylvania to New Mexico and beyond, lobbyists and their lawmaker allies have used a variety of tactics, including alleged deception.
Parent companies now shielded from exposure would be held accountable along with individual franchise owners.
The renters’ caucus is pushing to win both protections and political clout for the state’s 17 million renters.
State senator cites story, which revealed oil lobbyist’s misleading tactics.
The climate crisis demands a left-right consensus that transcends politics.
Frances Anderton discusses her new book on how 20th century housing developments brought people together, and their lessons for the current L.A. housing crisis.
Program at San Juan College School of Energy would certify “clean” fossil fuels.
An innovative program for Medi-Cal patients demonstrates food, when prescribed, can change health outcomes. Why did the state Assembly derail it?