The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to approve an ambitious set of program guidelines for spending hundreds of millions of dollars collected under the city’s Measure ULA tax, also known as the mansion tax. The tax on the […]
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Several years ago, investors bought the Koreatown fourplex where Mary Carmen Martinez had lived for nearly two decades and tried to push the tenants out. Martinez, a restaurant worker, and her neighbors decided that they would fight to stay, hanging
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Firefighters continued making progress Sunday against the destructive Mountain fire in Ventura County. The blaze, which has burned more than 20,000 acres and destroyed 134 structures, was about 26% contained early Sunday as firefighters continued mopping up hot spots before
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The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted in support of eliminating a rule that allows renters to be evicted when landlords remodel their buildings. Under the city’s “just cause” eviction rules, landlords can evict tenants only for specific reasons,
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The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted to adopt an ordinance strengthening the city’s tenant anti-harassment protections and making it easier for tenants to sue landlords who violate the rules. The tenant anti-harassment ordinance, known as TAHO, was originally
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The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted in favor of adopting measures to strengthen the city’s tenant anti-harassment ordinance after the original law, approved three years ago, resulted in thousands of tenant complaints and no prosecutions. The council voted
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In a bustling hallway on the sixth floor of a downtown courthouse, Alcira Ayala sat on a bench with her husband and daughter, anxiously waiting for her eviction case to be called. She held a black cloth bag filled with
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Nearly two years ago, voters in Los Angeles approved Measure ULA, increasing taxes on the sale of multimillion-dollar properties with the aim of raising hundreds of millions of dollars each year to help address the city’s housing crisis. Its fate
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The city of Los Angeles will pay nearly $40 million for misusing federal housing grants when it created affordable housing that was not accessible to people with disabilities, according to an announcement Monday from the U.S. Department of Housing and
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