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This Big L.A. Landlord Turned Away People Seeking Section 8 Housing

Apartment hunters with rental assistance were not welcome at many Jamison buildings, in apparent violation of California law, a Capital & Main investigation found. 

by Robin Urevich


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How Some of L.A.’s Biggest Apartment Owners Avoid Section 8 Tenants

By Robin Urevich

Capital & Main investigated seven of the city’s largest rental property owners and found most skirted anti-discrimination laws. Here’s how each landlord fared.

I Wanted the Holidays to Drown Out Trump. Then He Spewed His Racism Again.

By Erin Aubry Kaplan

We have to call out the increasingly blatant bigotry of the right — like President Trump’s calling Somali Americans “garbage” — or risk accepting it as the new normal.

They Power the U.S. Economy, But Will Struggle to Afford Health Care

By Elizabeth Aguilera

Health insurance costs will skyrocket for millions of Americans if certain tax credits expire. Small business owners and the self-employed will be hit especially hard.

A Little Place Called Home?

By Mark Kreidler

San Jose is delivering low-cost tiny homes for people living on the streets of California’s third-largest city — as long as the state continues to fund it.

Capital & Main, L.A. Times Win Sidney Award for Reporting on Child Farmworkers

By Steve Marble

A two-part series investigating California’s failure to protect underage farmworkers won the December Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

Giving Up on the Dream: Asylum Seekers Try Other Options in Mexico

By Kate Morrissey

Many migrants who were hoping to reach the U.S. are now stuck in a backlog with Mexico’s refugee agency; others are going home.

This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’

By Robert Ito

The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.

To Protect Underage Farmworkers, California Expands Oversight of Field Conditions

By Robert J. Lopez

State agencies to join forces to crack down on child labor violations after Capital & Main found enforcement breakdowns.