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.
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.
Reaching across diverse backgrounds and kinds of work, thousands of union members are sharing strategy and stories of the struggle to live and work in Los Angeles.
Natalia Molina, historian, author and MacArthur fellow, discusses gentrification and her family’s history of nurturing community.
Natalia Molina, historian, author and MacArthur fellow, discusses gentrification and her family’s history of nurturing community.
The city moved to regulate short-term rentals in 2018, but researchers say it will not issue fines.
Since January, the city has cleared nearly 600 encampments.
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?
Manuel Pastor, professor and equity advocate, says while staking her political capital on showing tangible progress, Bass must also address other daunting challenges.
Photojournalist Ted Soqui ‘s visual recap of this year in Los Angeles.
Measure ULA would fund affordable housing through a tax on real estate sales of more than $5 million.
A monopoly market drives inequality, a report from the California Community Foundation says.
Political giving by the Los Angeles mayoral candidate tops $1 million since 2020.
The power and corruption of big institutions was once far greater, says Robert Gottlieb, a historian of the L.A. Times. Then, as now, social movements are our best defense.
In praise of writer Mike Davis: prophet, burr, spellbinder and friend.
Rallies, wildfires and an oil spill: Photojournalist Ted Soqui looks back on his best images of the year.