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Historic Core, Downtown Los Angeles, California via Flickr By Robin Urevich / Capital & Main Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued an Wednesday that allows the city to use residential hotel rooms — which by law are set aside as permanent housing for some of the city’s poorest residents — to temporarily shelter unhoused Angelenos during the city’s current housing emergency. The order contradicts the 2008 residential hotel law — passed in response to an

When the American Hotel converted into a tourist hotel, its long-term residents lost not just their affordable housing but the creative community that long thrived in the iconic building.

When the American Hotel converted into a tourist hotel, its long-term residents lost not just their affordable housing but the creative community that long thrived in the iconic building.

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California has $6 billion in federal COVID relief funds with which to close the digital divide, but advocates argue that telecom industry proposals could sabotage the state’s high stakes experiment in online democracy.

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The debate around SB 9 centers on equity, social justice, affordability—and whether it benefits residents or developers.