Letters to the Editor: After the fires, we need to talk about L.A.’s absentee landowners
2 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: After the fires, we need to talk about L.A.’s absentee landowners

LA Times  

One of many vacant homes owned by Caltrans in El Sereno is seen in 2021. One newly constructed house on my block was purchased by someone who lives in another country and hasn’t set foot there. To the editor: Los Angeles should take the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza skyscrapers in downtown L.A. off the market. Pitkin County began building, and now more than 3,200 people live in these affordable homes. Completing Oceanwide Plaza should take less time than building thousands of individual homes and apartments.

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Editorial: Fires aggravated L.A.’s housing crisis. We need to build homes much faster
2 months ago

Editorial: Fires aggravated L.A.’s housing crisis. We need to build homes much faster

LA Times  

There was a housing crisis in Los Angeles County long before fire swept across the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and parts of the San Fernando Valley, turning thousands into newly homeless people. Now, it’s an even bigger, more challenging housing crisis that requires city and county officials and developers to figure out how to rebuild more fire-resistant housing in the burn …

‘It’s a dream to be a property owner’: Years after freeway’s demise, L.A. renters are buying state-owned homes
6 months, 3 weeks ago

‘It’s a dream to be a property owner’: Years after freeway’s demise, L.A. renters are buying state-owned homes

LA Times  

Patricia Payan, 77, casts a hopeful glance over the kitchen of the Caltrans-owned home in El Sereno she has rented since 1986. “It’s a dream to be a property owner.” Sales of the homes, apartments, lots and other properties owned by Caltrans are the final step toward healing the wound opened in the mid-20th century by plans to complete the …

Activists wield bolt cutters in a tense L.A. neighborhood as poor families seize empty homes
4 years, 3 months ago

Activists wield bolt cutters in a tense L.A. neighborhood as poor families seize empty homes

LA Times  

Heckmann with IC Inter-Con Security tapes up warning signs against trespassing at a publicly owned vacant home in the El Sereno neighborhood of Los Angeles in late November. Aided by activists armed with bolt cutters and drills, some have descended again and again on vacant homes in El Sereno, most notably on the day before Thanksgiving when clashes erupted between …

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