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The Story of Homelessness in L.A.

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Pacific Palisades, CA - July 09: Alexis Le Guier, 41, her husband Andrew and two children, Jackson and Poppy visit their home under construction after their recently built five-bedroom, four-bathroom house in the same location burned down in January's fire on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Six months after fires, more than 800 homeowners in Palisades, Altadena have sought permits to rebuild

Homeowners in Pacific Palisades and Altadena are picking up the pace in submitting permit applications to rebuild after January’s fires.

HERCULES, CALIFORNIA - JULY 01: In an aerial view, construction workers build a home at a new housing development on July 01, 2025 in Hercules, California. According to a report by the U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau, U.S. construction spending fell 0.3% in May as higher mortgage rates and rising inventory impacted single-family housing projects. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How major new housing reform will affect homebuilding in California

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 20: Braelynn (cq), 18-months, visits her grandmother Tamela Richardson, 48, who is a tenant at the Chesapeake Apartments on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. Richardson has lived at the apartment since 2015 and her unit has mold growing in the kitchen, a leaking ceiling and other habitable issues with the unit. Tenants have complained of mold, raw sewage running under the buildings, broken heaters and faulty carbon monoxide and smoke detectors. Massive habitability problems at a 425-unit apartment complex called Chesapeake Apartments in South L.A. The complex, which stretches for entire city blocks, has been on the city's radar for at least five years for having habitability and crime problems. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

State sues SoCal real estate tycoon, alleging widespread tenant exploitation

EL SERENO, CA - JUNE 03: Benito Flores peers down from his treehouse that he says he will stay in while facing eviction at his "reclaimed" house on Shelley Street in El Sereno, CA on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. He is among "reclaimers" who moved into Caltrans-owned property in 2020 and are facing evictions. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Elderly man builds tree house to protest eviction from state-owned home

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 26: A new 48-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail will be built at Crenshaw Boulevard and 54th Street in Los Angeles near the Metro K line. Members of the Clark family have owned the property for decades. Photographed in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

After half a century, California legislators on the verge of overhauling a landmark environmental law

Rep. Judy Chu and advocates push FEMA for more housing assistance for Eaton fire survivors

Failure of Skid Row landlord ‘canary in the coal mine’ for other homeless housing in Los Angeles, report says

‘We all need hope’: Altadena community park reopens four months after fires

AI is coming soon to speed up sluggish permitting for fire rebuilds, officials say

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