On Tuesday, Los Angeles City Councilman David Ryu quietly introduced a motion that would rescind an “Overnight Parking District” he created in Hollywood in April. Encompassing a small cluster of commercial streets between Santa Monica Boulevard and Lexington Avenue, the established district made it illegal for cars to park in the area between the hours […]
California is One Step Closer to Statewide Rent Control
In May, a half-dozen bills aimed at alleviating California’s housing affordability crisis were killed in the Senate, in what has been called the “the worst month in California’s housing policy history.” Yesterday, one of the few stragglers that survived, “anti-rent gouging bill” AB 1482, cleared the Senate judiciary committee. If passed, it would expand “just […]
As L.A. Experiences Double-Digit Spikes in Homelessness, Officials Are Finally Saying We Need Tenant Protections
On Tuesday morning, County Officials released the results of L.A.’s 2019 homeless count, and the stats were sobering. According to the report, which was compiled by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the number of Angelenos living in tents, vehicles, and shelters increased by 12 percent in the county and 16 percent in the […]
Should the City Use Eminent Domain to Keep Housing Affordable?
For more than a decade, Shao Zhao has called Chinatown’s sprawling, green stucco Hillside Villa apartment complex her home. Perched off Cesar Chavez Avenue, the building is just a short jaunt from businesses that cater to neighborhood’s majority-immigrant population, making it the ideal spot for Zhao’s 55-year-old mother, who speaks Cantonese and rarely drives outside […]