Housing & Homelessness

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The Maple Ridge mobile home park on the 7800 block of Slater Avenue in Huntington Beach on Monday, July 18, 2022.

‘Gimme Shelter’: Who’s watching California’s mobile home parks

Mobile home parks are among the most affordable places to live in California. But oversight has left many residents at risk of living in horrible conditions.

Opinion: California housing and the environment are often at odds. They don’t have to be
The fence around Echo Park Lake is coming down. The debate over it rages on
Prescription for housing? California wants Medicaid to cover 6 months of rent
Bass faces pushback as unhoused people are abruptly moved from one hotel to the next
L.A. strongly approves of Mayor Bass but skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows
In low-wage Portugal, Europe’s housing crisis bites deep

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 10: Juan Smith lives in room that has a door that doesn't close at Sanborn Hotel Apartments on Friday, March 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A homeless housing nonprofit’s buildings are in shambles. City plans intervention

Mayor Karen Bass with Jawonna Smith, 33, who lived in a tent on sidewalk before she was moved to a motel.

Mayor Karen Bass says the city will house 4,000 homeless people during her first 100 days

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 09, 2019 One of several buildings slated for renovation in the first phase by Brian D’Andrea, senior vice president of housing for Century Housing and Steve Peck, president and CEO of U.S.VETS as they continue with plans for the proposed housing for veterans at the Westside Veterans Campus. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Editorial: Finally, more housing for homeless veterans opens on the VA campus. Still problems? Of course

Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon speaks during a groundbreaking and dedication ceremony for a new 216-unit, 15-story modular high-rise that will be available for extremely-low-income and formerly homeless people Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Skid Row in Los Angeles. The ceremony for the Renaissance Center is the 13th affordable housing site in the Los Angeles area purchased by the Healthy Housing Foundation that was created in 2017 by AIDS Healthcare Foundation to help provide affordable housing. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer)

Inside the financial ties between a controversial housing nonprofit and Kevin de León

L.A. politics

Column: The real and complicated reasons why Los Angeles still has so many RV encampments
LAPD should stop handling many non-emergency calls, police union says
Editorial: Skid Row Housing Trust’s downfall is a teachable moment for L.A., not a reason to give up

Legislation and Policy

Editorial: Newsom, Bonta and the righteous fight to block Huntington Beach’s NIMBYism
Mandatory evictions for arrested tenants would be banned under new state bill
Mayor Bass orders list of vacant city properties where homeless housing could be built

In Depth

Inside one woman’s fight to stave off homelessness as eviction cases flood courts
Black and Latino homeless people rank lower on L.A.’s housing priority list
What’s the matter with Portland? Shootings, theft and other crime test city’s progressive strain

Times Columnists

Column: It shouldn’t take a saint to ease homelessness. But Dr. Jim tries in ‘Rough Sleepers’
On this flooded island of homeless people, climate change has never been more real
Column: If Karen Bass succeeds as L.A. mayor, she could have a shot at making historic firsts as California governor

Gimme Shelter Podcast

The Times’ Liam Dillon and CalMatters housing reporter Manuela Tobias chat about the latest developments in California housing policy and interview key newsmakers and other reporters. Available on Apple, SoundCloud, Spotify, Google and Stitcher podcasts.

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Opinion

Opinion: How California came to treat UC Berkeley students’ ‘noise’ as a dire environmental threat
California

Startling increase found in deaths of Orange County homeless people. Drugs are the main cause
Opinion

Editorial: Is L.A.’s anti-camping law getting homeless people off sidewalks and into housing? Let’s find out
California

Some buyers find deals in shifting Southern California housing market
Opinion

Opinion: California housing development remains abysmal despite reforms. Here’s what’s missing
California

Huntington Beach vows to continue housing fight, despite state warnings
Podcasts

The Times podcast: Why hotel rooms for L.A.’s homeless sit empty
California

Utah governor tells Californians to ‘stay in California instead of coming as refugees’
California

Winter shelters available for homeless as temperatures expected to drop into 30s
California

Leaving prison for many means homelessness and overdose. California hopes to change that
California

A Watts family gets a helping hand after a house fire pushed them toward homelessness
Opinion

Opinion: How California’s duplex law was designed to fail

Hollywood’s Finest

We chronicled one homeless woman’s motherhood journey since 2018

Mckenzie Trahan lived in the streets of Hollywood on and off since she was 13. At 22, she was nearly seven months pregnant and staying in a tent above the 101 Freeway.

Home buying guide

Illustration of a craftsman home with a key and ribbon below.

The Great SoCal House Hunt

Buying a home for the first time is one of life’s sweet milestones.

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Opinion

Editorial: Let skid row have affordable and market-rate housing. It’s the forward-looking thing to do
Commentary: Is that just a van — or someone’s home? The L.A. County homeless count weighs that and more

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