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Why do tenants have to bring their own refrigerators to rent apartments in Los Angeles?

‘Gimme Shelter’: How California’s top cop enforces housing laws
COVID eviction bans are lapsing, but other protections for California renters remain
A bid to stop freeway expansions in California hits a roadblock: Organized labor
Many homeless people resist group shelters even as L.A. mayoral candidates push to build more
‘Gimme Shelter’: Why mold and sewage complaints evade L.A. apartment inspectors

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Garcetti’s India nomination has stalled. So his parents hired lobbyists to help him
Congestion pricing? Free buses? Monorails? How L.A.’s next mayor could change your commute

Newsom’s new California budget offers few details on costs for court-ordered homeless help
Column: Did you strike gold selling your house? Maybe you should share the wealth
New California home buyers could soon get government cash for down payment

Column: Karen Bass wants to end homelessness. Are know-how and connections enough?
Column: The house was listed at $1.2 million. The sale price? Even crazier than you might think
Column: ‘This work speaks to my heart’: A student helps take primary medicine to the street

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Skid row is an overdose ‘epicenter.’ But methadone can be miles away
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Everyone has an idea for solving homelessness. What if we listened to the unhoused?
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Man who beat homeless men to death in series of L.A. attacks sentenced to life in prison
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Buying your first home? See if you qualify for a 0% interest down payment loan
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L.A. County Board of Supervisors votes to create super agency on homelessness
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Troublesome motel in Anaheim to be converted into affordable housing
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L.A.’s crackdown on homeless camping off to slow start with little enforcement
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After cops remove activists, L.A. mayor candidates take on homelessness — and one another
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Can you be a NIMBY and a Christian? Ex-Motown singer struggles with a new homeless shelter
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Violent crime and verbal abuse at Union Station have become unbearable, some workers say
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America’s homeless population is getting older as more ‘retire onto the streets’
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Newsom’s ‘CARE Court’ homelessness plan faces new questions from lawmakers

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

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A snapshot of new state government efforts to tackle California’s housing crisis
L.A. will shelter more homeless people to end major lawsuit. But how many?

Editorial: Turn golf courses into housing? We’re desperate enough that it should be on the table
Editorial: L.A.'s settlement of lawsuit over homelessness won’t do much about homelessness