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February 2025

Critically Endangered: Five RSO Homes in Melrose Hill
Things don’t look good for 5431-5437 Lemon Grove Avenue.
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The Ellis Act Has NO Place in an Extreme Housing Crisis
If you’re new here, I am a former property manager and I do not believe in the Ellis Act.
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James Li Exposes Public Housing Scam
Housing scams of all stripes are sadly not unusual in Los Angeles (or anywhere, really).
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If You Still Don't Believe Me...
You, dear reader, do not HAVE to believe me.
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Empty for 30+ Years in Pacoima?!
Picture, if you will, a two-story house in Pacoima on a nice big corner lot between two schools.
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January 2025

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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