Posts Tagged ‘L.A.s’
L.A.’s golden streetlights have turned harsh white. Homeowners aren’t happy
Light and Los Angeles are intrinsically linked.It’s a light that elicits emotion and demands reaction. Filmmaker David Lynch said L.A.’s “muted golden sunshine” was the reason filmmakers flocked here. In the New Yorker, the writer Lawr...
L.A.’s trailblazing home builder is the latest to leave California
One of Los Angeles’ most influential home builders, KB Home, is relocating its headquarters out of state, becoming the latest high-profile firm to do so.The company, which has been based in Los Angeles since 1963 and helped build its sprawli...
Four-story buildings allowed in some single-family zones under L.A.’s plan to delay SB 79
Since Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 79 into law last year, L.A. officials have been developing a strategy to stop its upzoning effects: Delay.The historic bill, which overrides local zoning laws to allow for taller, denser buildings near transit...
L.A.’s eviction defense program up in the air amid battle with city attorney
The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles routinely sues the city — and wins. In the last two months, the nonprofit has notched victories in three lawsuits over the city’s handling of the homelessness crisis. Legal Aid also defends tenants a...
L.A.’s famous ‘Hobbit Houses’ have a new owner. He calls himself the ‘King of Storybook’
In the architectural age of minimalism and millennial gray, a wild and whimsical antidote made of old clinker bricks and jumbled shingles sits on a quiet street at the edge of L.A. and Culver City.Formally, the spellbinding property is named t...
Looking to boost housing construction, lawmakers seek to overhaul L.A.’s “mansion tax”
Lawmakers in Sacramento unveiled a proposal this week to overhaul Measure ULA, the so-called “mansion tax” in Los Angeles, as part of a larger gambit to keep a statewide tax cut measure from making it onto next year’s ballot.The legislat...
