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To satisfy a court ruling, Los Angeles city and county agree to shelter 5,300 people in the next 10 months.
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Under coronavirus lockdown, Southern California home sales fell 45% in May from a year earlier, but the median price rose 2.7%, data firm says.
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A Times analysis shows that LA landlords are attempting to evict tenants despite rules barring such actions during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Passed in 1950, Article 34 of the California Constitution requires a public vote before the building of public housing.
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The petition is the latest eruption of a longstanding debate within the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority over how — or whether — to work with law enforcement.
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Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent to curb homelessness, the number of people without a home in Los Angeles grew for the fifth time in the past six years, officials announced Friday.
An ambitious Los Angeles County plan to lease hotel and motel rooms for 15,000 medically vulnerable homeless people is falling far short of its goal and may never provide rooms for more than a third of the intended population.
Thefts, screams at night and tedium are some of the challenges at San Diego’s largest homeless shelter
College students are making fall housing decisions, including whether to sign and break leases, based on limited details of what campus life will look like.
Black people make up 8% of L.A., but more than a third of its homeless population, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s homeless count report released Friday.
Coronavirus Resources
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Many homeowners who delay mortgage payments through forbearance plans will be allowed to make missed payments when the home is sold or the loan term is over.
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Mortgage companies are letting home owners with coronavirus-related financial hardships delay payments, but the process is confusing
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Renters in unincorporated L.A. County now have new tools to prevent eviction following a vote by the Board of Supervisors in response to the coronavirus.
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The housing market has taken a hit as the coronavirus has spread. However, some buyers are still moving forward.
Legislation and Policy
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The region’s largest landlord group says that the city of Los Angeles’ eviction moratorium is unconstitutional.
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Renters could get funds under the plan announced by L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez.
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If you live in an apartment complex and catch the coronavirus, you should inform people you’ve been in close contact with.
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Nowhere in L.A. are the logistical, financial and health complications of the coronavirus on greater display than at the huge complex Park La Brea.
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Passed in 1950, Article 34 of the California Constitution requires a public vote before the building of public housing.
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If you live in an apartment complex and catch the coronavirus, you should tell people you’ve been in close contact with.
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Weeks into the coronavirus pandemic, some tenants in California have turned their economic hardship into a political protest, demanding an end to rent.
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With the coronavirus hitting New York City the hardest, the pandemic is likely to change the debate over California’s efforts to build denser housing.
Times Columnists
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When a man loses his job and becomes homeless, a couple fostering his dog lends a hand.
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City Beat: When homeless people lose their possessions, they end up further from leaving the streets
City Beat: When homeless people lose their possessions, they end up further from leaving the streets
In life on the street, your things offer a sense of solace, and losing them — whether by theft or by city cleanup — can be a devastating setback.
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The “We the Unhoused” podcast documents homelessness from the perspective of a homeless person. Such stories are vitally important.
More Housing and Homelessness News
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Homeless numbers are up. We need rental assistance, evictions stopped, and more housing now.
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A big Burbank apartment-hotel project moves forward with a $40-million land sale along the 5 Freeway
A big Burbank apartment-hotel project moves forward with a $40-million land sale along the 5 Freeway
The mixed-use complex next to the Metrolink station will include a gallery, landscaped outdoor seating and protected bike lanes.
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Apartment rents in the Los Angeles area are starting to decline as the economy slows because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Homeless people have been exempted from the curfew in L.A. County, but being on the streets during the unrest has been extra challenging.
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A new L.A. law gives storage-unit renters the right to temporarily defer payment if they’re facing pandemic-related financial difficulties.
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Authorities say one person has been arrested after eight homeless people were given poisoned food that sent several to the hospital.
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COVID-19 has Thom Mayne, Michael Maltzan, Barbara Bestor, Rachel Allen and more Los Angeles architects rethinking design, from balconies to doorknobs.
More Coverage
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Finding a rental in L.A. was hard enough before the global pandemic. Here’s a guide to how to search and move in Southern California, and stay safe.
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American homeowners eligible for relief under the CARES Act were provided confusing information by more than two dozen banks, a watchdog has found.
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A state agency barred Eco Technology of Encino from offering PACE loans, alleging the contractor had fraudulently signed homeowners up for the financing.
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Special Reports
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It costs more to build low-income housing in California than anywhere else in the U.S., and the coronavirus pandemic is likely to make matters worse.
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At 76, Judge David Carter knows he shouldn’t be on skid row exposing himself to the coronavirus. But he wants more for L.A.'s homeless people.
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California’s push for density, supporting policies to encourage using transit and building housing near job centers, has a new enemy: the coronavirus.
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Opinion
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It’s awful that homeless people live near freeways but a judge doesn’t get to house them first.
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Hotels need to take in homeless people if they don’t want the coronavirus to spread.
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Los Angeles wants to move thousands of homeless people inside. But is crowding indoors actually less dangerous than letting them stay on the streets?
