That disparity is partly due to the county’s community-centered reporting system, LA vs Hate.
City officials are proposing stricter enforcement, higher fines and new technology in part to prevent rent-controlled apartments from being listed on Airbnb and Booking.com.
The proposal would increase hourly wages each year to reach $30 by 2028.
In the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, classes at a community art center help to prevent and manage Parkinson’s and other age-related illnesses.
Los Angeles officials are struggling to crack down on illegal rentals during a housing crisis. Here’s how to make sure you’re a responsible vacationer.
Painting a mural charting the native origins of chocolate teaches teens how excess sugar and food additives drive health problems in their community.
Amid an affordable housing crisis, dozens of rent-controlled buildings are listed on short-term rental websites. A 2018 law was supposed to stop that, but the city is struggling to enforce it.
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.