Douglas Emmett Inc.’s surge in donations began after a city councilman opposed evictions.
Mike Balog has resisted eviction from his rent-controlled apartment for nearly ten years. The strain is wearing him down, but he has nowhere to go.
Joanne Marie Erickson, battling post-polio syndrome, grapples with the looming threat of homelessness.
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go.
Author Nick Romeo lays out a plan for an economy that puts workers and the planet above profits.
The Office of the City Attorney says state law allows the evictions.
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.
The Blue Hollywood Street sanctuary run by Quincy Brown (“Pastor Blue”) demonstrates the paradox brought about by the nation’s now 52-year war on drugs. Safe sites for monitored drug use are seen as beneficial by public health experts but remain largely illegal.
With housing costs out of reach, workers from Brooklyn to Minneapolis to Los Angeles are demanding solutions.
Barrington Plaza owner says city-mandated fire safety upgrade is behind more than 500 evictions. City officials say there is no such requirement.
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.
A 2008 city law intended hotels used as primary residences to be preserved as safety-net housing. But with little enforcement, some landlords had turned their buildings into tourist hotels.
Amid the city’s homelessness crisis, some landlords have turned buildings meant for low-cost housing into tourist hotels.
After a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation found that landlords were turning low-cost housing into tourist hotels, the city ordered some building owners to comply with the law.
Housing costs have soared in the Texas city in recent years, while the state cuts back on funding.
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.
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.
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.