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Proposition LH is a measure on the ballot this November in order to gain voters' approval to build affordable housing. That's only because of Article 34, a.k.a. the "Public Housing Project Law" — an amendment to the California state constitution with racist underpinnings that was passed in 1950 and has yet to be repealed.
Los Angeles agencies tasked with addressing homelessness failed to spend nearly $150 million in federal grants between 2015 and 2020 — and returned the funds back to HUD.
At a May 27, 2022 meeting, the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of evoking eminent domain in order to seize a 124-unit Chinatown apartment building, Hillside Villa, from its landlord.
The Los Angeles City Council has authorized $2.9 million in additional funding for the demobilization of Project Roomkey, a housing program created during the coronavirus pandemic that is winding down.
A California non-profit is retrofitting homes to make a "virtual power plant" — and fighting gentrification at the same time.
At a disruptive meeting that resulted in one arrest, Los Angeles City Council voted to ban homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers.
Los Angeles county approved an LA River Master Plan that will develop a variety of projects over the next several years, including a land bank to buy affordable housing along the river. The five supervisors backed the River and Land Bank plans despite environmental and community groups pulling their support for it the day before.
California’s first-in-the-nation task force to identify reparations said business loans, housing grants, tuition, wage and job protections could provide redress for African Americans.
Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu resigned amid an FBI investigation alleging that he provided insider information to the Los Angeles Angels during a proposed sale of Angel Stadium.
When California Latinas for Reproductive Justice first started organizing for rent control, some policymakers didn't see the connection between housing and health. In Bell Gardens, the fight for housing stability is the fight to address the environmental determinants of health.
State lawmakers are rushing this week to extend California eviction protections for hundreds of thousands of tenants waiting for rent relief. But some advocacy groups for landlords and tenants alike are unhappy with the bill.
Roberto Flores, co-founder of the Eastside Café, saw a potential solution to the housing crisis in the vacant state-owned homes of El Sereno. He draws on lessons from Indigenous communities in Chiapas to organize for community control and stable, dignified housing.