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Affordable Apartments EMPTY in a Crisis (Updated 1/29)
No one needs me to tell them that LA’s housing crisis became much, MUCH worse over the past two weeks.
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Rent Gouging Is Happening En Masse. Warning Letters Aren't Enough.
Due to the surprising number of chronically empty or misused properties in Los Angeles, I have long suspected that many Angelenos were probably already…
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PSA: We Need All of our Empty Spaces to House Our People
When I started digging into chronically empty buildings in early 2023, I found local officials basically unhelpful and useless (they are all more than…
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Where Do We Go From Here?
I always want to say the right thing, but sometimes I don’t know what that is.
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This is (Hopefully Not) The End, Beautiful Friend
On the second day of Christmas, Los Angeles gave to us…a very nasty fire at one long-empty, much-abused SRO building.
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September 2024

Empty Los Angeles: The Podcast (updated 12/25)
I was very surprised when a producer at KPFK contacted me about the possibility of doing a podcast.
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Destruction and Displacement in Chinatown
(Image by Katie Antonsson) Everything about 712 New Depot Street* is wrong, from beginning to end. It was all preventable, but does the city care? Of…
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What Happened to 6743 Irvine Avenue?
(Image courtesy of Citizen)
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From Upzoned to Up In Flames
In Los Angeles, it's a tale as old as time.
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RIP Kohler Street...For the THIRD TIME
(Image: Citizen via KTLA)
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August 2024

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