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Housing and Homelessness

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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Developers are scowled at by locals, and Frank Murphy is not exempt. Viewed as catalysts for unwanted change, they bring in outsiders and push insiders out, while plowing the land in order to build their sky fortresses.
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Whitney Sander and designer Catherine Holliss' house in the Venice canals is an idea house.Embracing a myriad of materials, much like skin and bones shelter and shape the human body.
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Glen Irani's home in the Venice canals is a laboratory of ideas, a sketchpad on the new vernacular of Venice residential architecture.
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Lorcan O'Herlihy s intensely preoccupied with the idea of density and planning as a means of solving environmental issues in Venice and beyond.
In the last two years, Pugh-Scarpa, the architectural firm of Lawrence Scarpa, has been bestowed with every imaginable national and international architectural award.
Anderton has spent the last 25 years of her professional and personal lives exploring the relationship between LA's architecture, politics and design.
Lincoln Place Apartments in Venice were built to address not only the post-Second World War housing shortage.
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An interview with the executive director of Door of Hope, a transitional housing program that serves homeless families with young children.
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Far away in the border town of San Ysidro is a plan for low income housing inspired by the "Shantytowns" seen in many poor communities in Latin America. Tijuana, specifically.
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