Funes’ rent-controlled apartment is in the name of her recently deceased husband. Her landlord says that’s cause for eviction.
In The Rent Collectors, Jesse Katz explores the saga of Giovanni Macedo through the lens of L.A.’s fabled park.
Rent-controlled Barrington Plaza tenants, many of whom moved to more expensive apartments, are weighing a lawsuit.
Gary Phillips’ newly reissued mystery novel of that name is set in post-riot Los Angeles.
New contracts will expire six months before the Games, giving workers an opening to pit public attention against employers.
Shepard Fairey calls the tagging of empty luxury towers a “poetic reuse of a failed space.”
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.
El Sereno residents used grants and their own money to open a store selling healthy foods at affordable prices.
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.
The Office of the City Attorney says state law allows the evictions.
Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles.
Barrington Plaza owner says city-mandated fire safety upgrade is behind more than 500 evictions. City officials say there is no such requirement.
Amid the city’s homelessness crisis, some landlords have turned buildings meant for low-cost housing into tourist hotels.
Likely all Los Angeles workers, says a new study of pay and expenses. But the political will is not yet there.
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.
Low-income neighborhoods are often dangerously hotter than wealthier areas. At “resilience hubs” there is shelter to survive, with programming for communities to thrive.
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.