“Getting It Right,” a stunning report by Berkeley Law and Columbia University researchers, drives a stake in claims by Gov. Brown and legislators that the California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, …
AHF Opens 220-Room Homeless Housing on Skid Row
AIDS Healthcare Foundation has opened a renovated hotel for 220 homeless — and the non-profit foundation did it four times faster, and at less than half the cost, of what …
Christmas Card for the Metropolitan Tenants: Happy Holidays! Now Get Out!
Get out: That’s what City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell and United Way board member Jerry Neuman are permitting as they look the other way while residents are ordered from their homes …
California Politicians Need to Preserve, Not Demolish, Affordable Housing
It’s a simple, effective concept to help solve our affordable housing crisis that L.A. and state politicians have long ignored: preserve, not demolish, existing affordable housing. Housing advocates have been …
Does Venice Have an Airbnb Problem?
The Los Angeles Times examines how Airbnb’s short-term rentals are impacting longtime residents in Venice, where long-term rental housing is tight. Such conversions from long-term housing to short-term need city …