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The affordable housing crisis to grow in California. Learn about legacies of racist housing policy as well as gentrification and other causes of homelessness. Follow conversations on zoning, rent relief, city spending and housing trusts as the state grapples with this urgent issue.

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Like many other neighborhoods near the center of Los Angeles, Chinatown is in flux. One concern that has long surfaced about the neighborhood's art scene is gentrification.
Street vendor walking by a mural depicting children holding hands on W. Temple St. (Photo by Ricardo Dearatanha/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Street vendors rely on informal "micro-economies" to sustain their families while their children endure uncertainty as city officials remain indecisive as to how to legalize street vending.
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Experimental exhibition space PØST is shuttering amid a changing downtown Los Angeles. Founded by HK Zamani, the artist ruminates about the venue's past, present and possible future.
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The inaugural exhibition of the Los Angeles Poverty Department is the first in a series of shows about activist initiatives that have, over the years, preserved Skid Row.
Rendering of the Star Apartments
What would it mean for L.A. to become known for a successful and sustainable network of beautiful housing projects for its most vulnerable citizens?
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KCET's Award-Winning Weekly Series 'SOCAL CONNECTED' Looks at the Restoration of Downtown L.A.'s Historic Theaters and the Impact of Continued…
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The symbolic and physical properties of cardboard play a significant role in the set design of "Love on San Pedro."
The playwright behind "Love on San Pedro" explains the inspiration and process behind penning the community collaborative play.
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Palm Springs Architecture's connection to modernism
Amanda Dahlgren photographed the fancy houses of the housing bubble
Funeral March to Anthem Blue Cross in Support of SB 810
The movement continues to pull together and merge with natural allies to manifest in an almost daily docket of events and actions. There are so many ways to participate that it would be impossible to do it all.
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A big picture look at the region, including stories about health insurance, Santa Ana's gentrification, L.A.'s budget problems and more.
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