Lopez: Half a century on the beat, and thank you very much
The Bard of Los Angeles was waiting for an elevator when I arrived at the office one day in 2002. Columnist Al Martinez and I greeted each other, and with ...
Tag: Housing & Homelessness
In a bid to blunt gentrification after fire in Altadena, nonprofits look to buy burned lots
Eshele Williams always believed she’d eventually own the home she rented in Altadena’s historic Janes Village neighborhood. The 1920s cottage was where she brought her son Brayden home from the ...
New taxes will soon dwarf the billions spent on homelessness in last decade. Who’s watching over it?
After nearly a decade of unprecedented taxpayer spending on homelessness with little to show in improvement on the streets, the giant nonprofits behind the measures that secured that funding asked ...
Measure A oversight panels set five-year goals with metrics to evaluate their success
The authors of the Measure A half-cent homelessness sales tax that went into effect April 1 infused it with broad goals such as reducing the number of people who become ...
Fires, tariffs and high interest rates: L.A. housing construction plunged at start of year
Housing construction in Los Angeles plunged during the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report, a drop off that could ultimately worsen the city’s affordability crisis. Developers pulled ...
Southern California home price growth is slowing. Whose market is it now?
Southern California home prices barely rose last month, as would-be buyers weren’t able — or willing — to bid up housing costs much further. Economists and real estate agents cited ...
Amid questions about his resume, leader of new Los Angeles housing agency plans to depart
A new Los Angeles County public entity soon will collect an estimated $400 million annually in taxpayer money to fund low-income housing developments across the county. Ryan Johnson, interim chief ...
‘The vibe shift is’ real. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie becomes his hometown’s hype man
SAN FRANCISCO — When Daniel Lurie won election in November as San Francisco’s new mayor, he knew there were daunting challenges ahead: the twin epidemics of homelessness and addiction; a deflated downtown ...
Measure ULA is reducing apartment development in the city of L.A, report says
Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” that funds affordable housing has likely led to a drop off in overall apartment construction, potentially worsening the city’s housing situation, according to a new report ...
‘I’m going to resist’: Protesters who seized state-owned homes five years ago prepare for eviction battle
Benito Flores has parked his battered, pale yellow Dodge Ram van on the narrow street in El Sereno outside his one-bedroom duplex. It reminds him of the past and the ...
