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Why L.A.’s Freeways Are Symbolic Sites of Protest The freeway system displaced generations of people of color.
A view of the development that would make a new home for Taix on Sunset Boulevard. Renderings courtesy of Los Angeles City Planning If you love old-timey buildings, you probably look at the Echo ...
More than a dozen hotels and motels around Los Angeles County are making rooms available for homeless residents during the COVID-19 crisis. County officials say that by early next week, more than ...
MOCA is just one of the museums that’s sharing information digitally as Angelenos are holed up at home. Shutterstock As Angelenos hunker down to comply with city and county orders to stay home ...
But ADUs can be expensive to build, about $120,000 on average, builders say, which makes United Dwelling an appealing option for homeowners who don’t have the savings, equity, or appetite to ...
Arguably the U.S. city most closely associated with traffic congestion, Los Angeles ranks just sixth on a new list of the nation’s most traffic-clogged urban areas. LA regularly claimed the No ...
More than half a century after publishing the collections that established her reputation as a gimlet-eyed cultural critic—Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album—Joan Didion continues ...
In the summer of ’63, black students led protests against the South Bay’s white-only neighborhoods Thousands of demonstrators flooded Torrance—and were confronted by angry white homeowners ...
The pride of West Adams Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build ...
Under SB 50, cities would also have to allow up to four units on lots now exclusively reserved for single-family homes. Getty Images/iStockphoto The California Senate this morning reaffirmed its ...
A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...