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.
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.
Richard and Leah Rothstein’s new book is an organizer’s guide to integrating communities.
A state bill aims to extend foster care housing support for those who need it most.
Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial executive now count on each other as renters battling corporate landlords. They are members of the largest tenants union in the country.
Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial marketing executive now count on each other as fellow renters battling corporate landlords.
The city moved to regulate short-term rentals in 2018, but researchers say it will not issue fines.
With the right app, you can get anything you want. So why can’t the unhoused find one to help them get a roof over their heads?
Making developers who stoke the housing crisis repair the damage they’ve done.
As the city’s eviction moratorium expires, Los Angeles ponders action to keep longtime Chinatown residents in their home.
Advocates warn that without immediate action rising evictions will complicate efforts to combat homelessness.
This week’s torrent compounds the affordable housing crisis.
Sarah Fay, 28, is among the millions of Americans in precarious housing situations, sometimes on the brink of homelessness. She gave photographer Barbara Davidson, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, deep access to her life to capture these scenes.
The clock is ticking on Sarah Fay’s precarious living situation. What will she do?
In our sprawling crisis, trauma weighs down many ‘housing-insecure’ people like Sarah Fay.
As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declares a state of emergency on housing, residents like Sarah Fay live on the brink of being unhoused.
Reclaiming Our Homes drew national attention to SoCal’s struggles over housing and poverty. But their time in state-owned houses may be up.
Recently passed legislation pushes new construction as a solution.
The aftereffects of the pandemic are likely to depress homeownership rates for Black and Latino households in California.
48,000 underpaid student workers in the University of California system prepare to go on strike Nov. 14.